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Rishav Sharma

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New Delhi, Southern Asia
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Why the Karnataka government's mandate to include Preamble of Constitution in daily routine of sc...

Why the Karnataka government's mandate to include Preamble of Constitution in daily routine of sc...

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Enthralling queer short stories from rural India

Enthralling queer short stories from rural India

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Why the Karnataka government's mandate to include Preamble of Constitution in daily routine of sc...

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History and Practice Define why India Doesn't Need Sedition law | NewsClick

Law commission forgets to note that sedition has no place in a free country's legal system.

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Review: 'Interpreting the World to Change It - Essays for Prabhat Patnaik' | (...) - Mainstream W...

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Learning to Stir the Cauldron of Protest | NewsClick

Aakar Patel's latest offering, The Anarchist Cookbook: A Toolkit to Protest and Peaceful Resistance, is a sci…

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When the baton goes rogue

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By Rishav Sharma
| The Telegraph (India) Verified
The ambiguous principle of minimum force is neither accidental nor a legislative defect; it is a deliberate inheritance from the common law of colonial policing Rishav Sharma Published 28.07.26, 09:25 AM Police use batons during CJP protest in Delhi File picture On July 20, thousands of protesters marched to Parliament in response to the Cockroach Janta Party’s call to register their dissent over irregularities in conducting national-level exams.
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The colonial rope

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By Rishav Sharma
| The Telegraph (India) Verified
As the rope remains the procedural instrument in a republic, what is under constitutional scrutiny is whether it accords the principle of dignity ensured under Article 21 of the Constitution Rishav Sharma Published 23.05.26, 09:26 AM Representational image. Sourced by The Telegraph The Union government has informed the Supreme Court, led by a bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta, that it is willing to consider a more humane way of carrying out capital punishment in India.
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A grey spot in law

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By Rishav Sharma
| The Telegraph (India) Verified
Stalking is a crime of escalation. By tethering stalking to repetition, the law denies recognition to the first act of violation and places the burden on women to endure further harassment Rishav Sharma Published 29.10.25, 07:21 AM Representational image File picture In her seminal essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak discusses the reproduction of silence by refusing to recognise certain forms of speech or experience. Indian stalking law mimics this silencing.
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Interview

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

I have an old rugged dictionary, that's the only tool I use while I write. Though for legal research I often use Manupatra.

What's your favorite drink?

Ristretto

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

Most probably in the court or my chamber.