DISHA BANDYOPADHYAY

DELIVERING FACTS OR ALTERING PERCEPTIONS?

January 4, 2022

In a world of multi-screening, where TED talks threaten to replace books and lectures,”, the generation’s ephemeral interests celebrate performance and storytelling over factual accuracy. Writing in The Guardian, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic argues that we live in a culture with “a crisis of attentiveness. Amidst instant polling and surfing headlines, there...

Synthesizing the expanding horizons of Article 21: Are the civil liberties truly infallible?

December 8, 2021

Often characterised as ‘the procedural Magna Carta protective of life and liberty’, Article 21, in our living Constitution, is the most organic and progressive provision. Embodying the ‘constitutional value of supreme importance in a democratic society’, Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, 1950 provides, “No person shall be deprived of...

Burqa ban: Is it a legitimate restraint or an outrageous curtailment of individual rights?

July 9, 2021

INTRODUCTION While women should choose what they wear, such decisions should not be forced by the state. The difference between rights and forcefully imposed-rights is a policymaker’s intention of genuine welfare. While the central tenet of democracy embraces vigilant protests against exploitation, campaigns to ‘stop extremism” sometimes come as veiled xenophobic...