Supreme Court

Mercy killing

Haima Deshpande

While the Supreme Court has issued notices to states and union territories seeking their views on legalising passive euthanasia, the families of comatose patients Shruti, Najma and Amit refuse to even discuss the issue. They think they are being unjust to their loved ones

Dividends of Death

PR Ramesh

Tamil sub-nationalism and political opportunism over Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination

The New Sexual Extremism

Minal Hajratwala

On the dangers unleashed by the Supreme Court’s determinedly archaic judgment on Section 377

Life Gets a Long Rope

Anoo Bhuyan

What the Supreme Court’s commutation of 15 death sentences at one go augurs

Right to a Decent Execution

Madhavankutty Pillai

What the Supreme Court’s guidelines about death-row convicts tell us

Right to Sexuality

Akshay Khanna

Why the Supreme Court verdict upholding Section 377 is a loss for everyone

So Much for the Ban

Haima Deshpande

Maharashtra is unable to justify its 2005 closure of dance bars before the Supreme Court

Case No. 1

Chinki Sinha

Azad Khan was 12 years old when he was shot in Manipur, allegedly for being an insurgent. A Commission appointed by the Supreme Court has ruled this was one of six extra judicial killings