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Digital Scars: Why Deleting Your Chat History Doesn't Delete Your Data
In 2025 Chat GPT revealed that, each week 1 million people talk about mental health issues with Chat GPT[1]. So, let's take that example to start this article. Lets assume you used Chat GPT exact same way. With Chat History and Training on, you pour your heart onto the AI while it silently listens for months. Personal anxieties, family names and private details are all told into the chat so the AI also remembers and knows the context. Now all this information like your linguistic patterns and...
Policy Gap Between Solid Waste Management Rules And Carbon Credits
The MoEFCC notified the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 (“SWM Rules”) on January 27, 2026, effective April 1, 2026. These rules supersede the 2016 framework and create a comprehensive framework for waste management across urban and rural areas. The rules create specific waste management obligations:Four-Stream Segregation (Rule 5): Mandatory segregation into wet waste, dry waste, sanitary waste, and special care waste enables proper channelization to processing facilities. This segregation...
Between Progress And Pressure: A Woman Lawyer's Negotiation With Ambition
The legal profession trains us to measure our words carefully. Precision is discipline. Preparation is identity. For years, I believed that if I worked hard enough, understood the law thoroughly, and argued with clarity, that would be sufficient.Over time, I realised I was measuring something else too — my tone, my pauses, my reactions.There are days I replay not the submissions I made, but the ones I softened. The moment when a remark went uncorrected because responding might have appeared...
A Safety Valve, Not A Staffing Policy: Rethinking Article 224A
On the 3rd February 2026, the Supreme Court Collegium approved the appointment of retired judges as ad hoc judges to the Allahabad High Court under Article 224A of the Constitution. At the first glance, the decision appeared reassuring. It promised experience on the Bench, quicker disposal of cases, and some relief from an overwhelming backlog in cases.Yet the constitutional law requires more than reassurance. It requires the scrutiny of the act by collegium. The real question is not whether...
When Wealth Meets Crime: Lessons From The Epstein Case For Justice Systems Worldwide
The foundation of every democratic society rests upon the principle that justice must operate impartially and equally for all individuals, regardless of their wealth, influence, or social standing. Equality before law is not merely a constitutional guarantee but a fundamental expectation from legal institutions across the world. However, several high-profile criminal cases have raised serious concerns regarding whether this ideal is consistently implemented in practice. The intersection of...
Beyond Kartavya: Union Budget 2026 And The Legal Quietude
The Union Budget is no longer a neutral fiscal statement confined to revenue and expenditure. It has become a central instrument through which governance priorities are asserted, social choices are structured, and constitutional values are indirectly shaped. Union Budget 2026-27 must therefore be read not merely as an economic exercise, but as a document of constitutional consequence....
Examining Equity: Analysing UGC Regulations, 2026 And The Judicial Directive
The University Grants Commission (UGC) on 13th January notified the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2026 (2026 Regulations). These Regulations were notified under the UGC Act, 1956 and replace the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2012 (2012 Regulations), thus marking an important shift.The aim of the 2026 Regulations is to promote equity and inclusion and eradicate...
Rights Issues In India: Law, Process And Practical Concerns
Rights issue is virtually one of the most common methods used by the companies to raise more cash. Instead of approaching new investors, companies issue new shares to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings, usually at a discounted price. This is to protect the owners against dilution of their stakes and also provide the company with a boost to its finances. In India, the entire thing is governed by the Companies Act, 2013 and in the case of listed companies there is a dosage of...
When Civil Wrongs Are Prosecuted As Crimes: The Growing Crisis Of Overcriminalisation
A plywood seller supplied goods worth nearly ₹15 lakh to a couple. Only part of the amount, around ₹3.5 lakh, was paid. What followed was not a civil suit for recovery, not a commercial negotiation, but a criminal complaint. The police were set in motion. Allegations of cheating, criminal breach of trust, and conspiracy were levelled. Arrest loomed. Anticipatory bail was denied by the Rajasthan High Court on the reasoning that police custody might be necessary to recover the remaining money....
Legal Education To Lay Down Foundations, Not Raise Walls: A Response To Litigation-Centred Training
This piece responds to Dr. S. A. Thameemul Ansari's column piece, “Reclaiming the Soul of Legal Education: A Case for Litigation-Centred Training,” which articulates a familiar frustration within legal academia: that years spent training students in the discipline of law are ultimately “wasted” when graduates move into corporate roles. Of evidence law to produce smoking gun; of procedural law in choreographing a trial; of drafting plaints and applications under the CPC; and of arguing before...
Has Supreme Court's Interpretation Of Section 29A Created Uncertainty Around Challenge To Arbitral Awards? A Critical Analysis
The Supreme Court has recently made a controversial shift in the interpretation of Section 29A (5) of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996, by allowing the post-award extension to the arbitral tribunal to make otherwise unenforceable award, enforceable. In C. Velusamy vs. K Indhera, 2026 LiveLaw (SC) 105, the two-judge bench held that an application seeking extension of an arbitrator's mandate under Section 29A (5) is maintainable even after an arbitral award has been delivered beyond...
The Art Of Graceful Exit Redefining Retirement In An Age Of Longevity
Retiring with grace stands as one of life's profound arts, especially for those who have scaled the heights of renown in their chosen fields. It is the elegance of departure at the precise moment when the world hungers for more, when applause still echoes, and admiration burns brightest. Such exits carve themselves into collective memory, outlasting the clamor of prolonged tenures.History brims with these luminous farewells when the warrior who sheathes his sword at victory's peak and the poet...