By Aman Sharma and Hrithik Merchant The severance of traditional notions of interrelation between marriage and parenthood has precipitated in augmenting adoptions by single parents.[1] Concomitantly, the ban on commercial surrogacy in India has fostered adoptions as an alternative for single parents.[2] Between 2016 and 2019, there were 331 domestic adoptions by single parents in … Continue reading Revisiting the Heteronormativity in Single Parent Adoption Laws

By Rajat Sinha and Sahil Artwani Introduction The ‘gig economy’ has been under scrutiny for bypassing labour laws across the globe. A gig economy is categorized by popularity of temporary and mobile jobs and businesses which tend to recruit independent contractors and freelancers rather than full-time workers.[1] The archaic system of full-time employees who seldom … Continue reading Customer Reviews, The Gig Economy and Labour Protection

By Khushi Joshi The refugee crisis of the liberal state accelerated by increase in right wing populism in governance has resulted in attempts to redefine identities of the imagined community of the state and the ‘other’ and the emerging threat of pursuing this agenda through liberal institutions such as the judicial bureaucracy. The recent order … Continue reading The Supreme Court’s Interim Order in the Rohingya Deportation Case : A Lost Opportunity