• CONSTITUTION AS AN INSTRUMENT AND A SYMBOL: HOW IT SUCCEEDED AS FORMER AND FAILED AS LATTER IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR 

    September 26, 2026 • ZAFFAR IQBAL Much has been written about the constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir within the framework of Indian Constitution. Conspicuous with the label “special status”, the purport of this label has practically done more harm than good. In this piece, I have willingly perused ordinary arguments so that even a layperson who may not be familiar about constitutionalism and complex legal reasoning can comprehend the nature and…

  • Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

    Title: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Author: Timothy Snyder Publisher: Crown / Tim Duggan Books (2017) Pages: 126 History does not repeat, but it does instruct The book is a clarion call for all those concerned and spirited individuals who repose faith (albeit misplaced and short-lived) in institutions and sinews of governance that purportedly function in our favour, to put their…

  • The Residual Sovereign: Placing the Right to Resistance in India’s Constitutional Order

    September 14, 2026 • ZAFFAR IQBAL This essay seeks to revisit the right to resistance in the context of Indian constitutional politics with the core argument pivoting on the intersection of stasis and dynamism in the way the Indian State responds to and sketches upon dissent. Inter alia, the pertinent question here is what stops the state from institutionalizing right to resistance?  The vortex of changes that India currently…