J. Sai Deepak

The coloniality of modernity

It was around the 1430s that the term ‘modern’ was used in southern Europe’s Romance languages to show the past…

5 years ago

Public morality, public opinion and policymaking

In a 2007 paper titled ‘How Policymakers View Public Opinion’, Prof Francois Petry, a political scientist, presumed that in a…

5 years ago

Free speech and its impact on policymaking

A democracy places a premium on maximising good for the maximum number of people, but what makes it different is…

5 years ago

Free speech and its impact on policymaking

In a monarchy, the source of public morality depends on the conception of monarchy itself in a given society. For…

5 years ago

Fifty one shades of speech

In the previous piece, this author had raised the following questions in the process of etching the contours of public…

5 years ago

Etching the contours of public morality

The debate was triggered by the Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution published in 1957 by…

5 years ago

Is Article 32 available against the judiciary?

There is no reference anywhere in the 18 paragraphs of H.M. Seervai’s discussion on the issue to the Constituent Assembly…

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Is judiciary part of the ‘State’ under Article 12?

While there exists a significant amount of debate around this question, the Supreme Court has held that courts are not…

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Constitutional morality, public morality and moral diversity

The pith and marrow of this discussion is that constitutional morality may be invoked on the basis of the provisions…

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Constitutional morality versus public morality

The literature suggests that the concept of ‘morality’ is drawn from the French concept of ‘bonnes mœurs’, which is understood…

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Dr Ambedkar on constitutional morality

There are quite a few myths that abound in relation to the Indian Constitution, in particular in relation to its…

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Shri Ram janmabhoomi: Reconciling truth & secularism

When the ASI’s report revealed that the demolished temple’s pillars were used for the construction of the disputed structure in…

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