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The Leaflet – An independent platform for cutting-edge, progressive, legal, and political opinion. • 21st October 2022

Strong laws to protect encryption are the need of the hour

On Global Encryption Day, we examine recent legislation in India, Asia and across the world that undermine encryption to increase government surveillance powers.

“ENCRYPTION safeguards the personal security of billions of people and the national security of countries around the world.”

The Leaflet – An independent platform for cutting-edge, progressive, legal, and political opinion. • 4th October 2022

Moonlighting debate: Missing the forest for the trees

To fire or not to fire? The framing of the moonlighting debate, affecting IT employees with multiple jobs, may be the biggest problem when one factors in the larger issue of inequality, exacerbated by neo-liberal economic policies and the COVID-19 crisis.

“WHEN inequality of conditions is the common law of society, the most marked inequalities do not strike the eye; when everything is nearly on the same level, the slightest are marked enough to hurt it.”

The Leaflet – An independent platform for cutting-edge, progressive, legal, and political opinion. • 30th August 2022

Secret detentions and enforced disappearances strike fear in China

Understanding detentions of Tibetans and many others in People’s Republic of China on the United Nations International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances through poems, essays and the written word.

“ONE does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
George Orwell

The Leaflet – An independent platform for cutting-edge, progressive, legal, and political opinion. • 29th August 2022

The Indian domestic violence scenario is chilling

The socio-legal system is currently designed to fail victims of domestic abuse, thanks to dilution of laws like section 498A Indian Penal Code, patriarchal and misogynistic application of the law, judicial denial of the seriousness of domestic violence, crimes against women, and low employment among women.

A woman’s cries punctuated the silence between the sounds of passing cars. It wasn’t high pitched or excruciatingly loud. It merely indicated the obvious, that someone was beating her up agai

The Leaflet – An independent platform for cutting-edge, progressive, legal, and political opinion. • 2nd July 2022

The walrus and the carpenter: The impact of Terra-LUNA on crypto regulations

With built in pseudo-anonymity, algorithmic regulation technology establishes the possibility of money laundering and identity manipulations, just like the ones that challenge NFT markets. All too often, we overlook the fact that rule of law ensures fairness, equality and above all, provides redressal mechanisms for the same.

The Leaflet – An independent platform for cutting-edge, progressive, legal, and political opinion. • 29th June 2022

The treachery of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

As more and more resources are committed to digital assets, many governments are focused on catching bad actors in a bid to introduce some kind of regulations into the crypto-anarchist world of digital assets.

The Leaflet – An independent platform for cutting-edge, progressive, legal, and political opinion. • 2nd June 2022

Cryptoassets in India: Is history repeating itself?

With the advent of the metaverse, it becomes imperative to analyse the implications of the use of cryptocurrency and other cryptoassets in India.

Deccan Herald • 29th October 2017

Two cases & a sunrise sector

The government nurtured and shaped the broadcasting industry through its nascent years; now is the time to unleash its potential and reap the benefits.


On March 22 this year, the Finance Bill 2017, became law, and paved the way for the enactment of the Tribunal, Appellate Tribunal and other Authorities (Qualifications, Experience and other Conditions of Service of Members) Rules. The two laws merged some tribunals, abolished others and pigeon-holed all into one set of Rules.

The Wire • 6th April 2017

Finance Bill: Rationalised Tribunals, Irrational Tribulations

A finance Bill is a money Bill tabled every year by the government along with the Union Budget and requires substantive assent solely from the Lok Sabha. The Finance Bill, 2017 has been hotly debated since it was first presented by finance minister Arun Jaitley at the Lok Sabha on February 1, 2017. A second money Bill, passed by the Lok Sabha, two weeks ago, is proving to be no less controversial.