Opinion Pieces, Blogs and Essays

• Uniform Civil Codes, Written by States, may be Re-Written by Citizens, The Times of India (March 2026).
• State of Relationships, The Times of India (February 2024).
• Family Law Reforms After Marriage (In)Equality, The India Forum (November 2023).

• When Discrimination is Not Enough, Verfassungsblog (October 2023).

• Marriage Equality at the Doors of the Indian Supreme Court, Verfassungsblog (May 2023).

• Some Thoughts on Marriage Equality, the Uniform Civil Code and Queering Indian Family Law, Law School Policy Review (February 2023).

• The Case for Legalising LGBTQ+ Marriages, The India Forum (January 2023).

• What the push by individual states for Uniform Civil Codes would mean for Indian federalism, Scroll.in (2022).

• Faulty Reasoning: Divorce Law in India remains a site of daily tragedy, The Telegraph (2022).

• Trends in the Legal Uptake of India’s Landmark Trans Rights Decision, OxHRH Blog (2022).

• To Solve Violence Against Women, We Need More Than Just Criminal Law Reforms, The Wire (2021).

• Federal tensions in India’s Covid-19 response: The case of the many Epidemic Acts, NLSIR Online (2021) (Co-authored).

• With Allahabad HC ruling on special marriages, individual rights trump community interests – rightly, Scroll.in (2021).

• LGBT+ Marriage: To secure equality in civil rights, family law must also be reformed, Scroll.in (2020).

• Crux of ‘bois locker room’ case lies in unpacking link between performance of masculinity and sexual violence, Firstpost (2020) (Co-authored).

• Coronavirus and the Constitution – XVI: The Supreme Court’s Free Testing Order – A Response, Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy Blog (2020) (Co-authored).  

• Covid-19 and the Need for a Framework to Support End of Life Decision-Making, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Blog (2020).

• Pricing and Private Hospitals: The Far-Reaching Implications of the Bombay High Courts’ Decision in ‘Hospital’s Association, Nagpur’, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Blog (2020).

• Covid-19: Structural Changes are Needed to Address Violence Against Health Workers, The Wire (2020) (Co-authored).

• Upgrading India’s Special Marriage Law, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Blog (2020).

• Beyond 377: Making Laws Inclusive for the LGBT Community, The Quint (2019) (Co-authored).

• Article 370 revoked: Cooperation between Centre and new UTs will be key to governance, realisation of aspirations, Firstpost (2019) (Co-authored).

• Rajya Sabha, the Safety Valve of Indian Federalism, The Wire (2019) (Co-authored).

• Regulating Fake News in India is Tough, LiveMint (2018) (Co-authored).

• Asking Searching Questions to Forms and Symbols of Injustice: Indirect Discrimination, Intersectionality and the Principle of Anti-Stereotyping, IACL-AIDC Blog (2018).

• Indian High Court’s Recognition of a Person’s Right to Live as Transgender – A Bitter-Sweet Pill, OxHRH Blog (2018).