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Governance
Consumer protection in India: the 2019 Act, the CCPA and dark patterns
The Consumer Protection Act 2019 and its three-tier commissions, the CCPA’s powers and enforcement record, the 13 dark patterns, e-commerce rules and the e-Jagriti platform.
30 September 2026 · 16 min read
Governance
Sports governance in India: the Sports Code, federations and the 2025 Act
From the National Sports Development Code 2011 to the National Sports Governance Act 2025: IOA and federation controversies, the Board-Tribunal-Election Panel triad, and Khelo Bharat Niti.
30 September 2026 · 14 min read
Governance
Minimum government, maximum governance: the deregulation turn
From the Jan Vishwas Act’s decriminalisation of 183 provisions to self-attestation and trust-based regulation: what shrinking the state’s footprint means for governance quality.
27 September 2026 · 14 min read
Governance
Land acquisition law: the 2013 Act and the consent debate
The 2013 land acquisition law built consent, social impact assessment and four-times compensation into the statute. A decade on, the Standing Committee says consent is a formality. Why land is still the hardest part of infrastructure.
27 September 2026 · 21 min read
Governance
NGOs and civil society: partners, watchdogs and the FCRA debate
Over 34 lakh registered NGOs make India’s civil society among the world’s largest. What the sector does, why the FCRA 2020 amendments triggered a reckoning, and the 2025 question: non-state actor or anti-state actor?
27 September 2026 · 28 min read
Governance
Prisons and custodial justice: reforming India’s jails
India’s prisons run at 131 per cent capacity with three-fourths of inmates still awaiting trial. The overcrowding crisis, the undertrial tragedy, the D.K. Basu safeguards and the Model Prisons and Correctional Services Act, 2023.
27 September 2026 · 17 min read
Governance
Police reforms: the unfinished agenda from Prakash Singh to SMART policing
Governed by an 1861 colonial Act and seven binding Supreme Court directives that states keep diluting, the police remain India’s most visibly unreformed institution. The Prakash Singh judgment, the Model Police Act, and why reform stalls.
27 September 2026 · 19 min read
Governance
Civil services in a democracy: the constitutional design
Why the Constitution built a permanent steel frame behind the elected government: the Part XIV design of Articles 308 to 323, what civil services actually do in a democracy, and the UPSC as watchdog of the merit system.
27 September 2026 · 26 min read
Governance
Sector regulators up close: SEBI, TRAI, CCI, IRDAI, PFRDA and FSSAI
From SEBI’s enforcement gaps to TRAI’s turf war with the DoT, CCI’s Big Tech fines, and FSSAI’s food-labelling fight: how India’s six big sector regulators actually perform.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
Governance
Lokpal and Lokayuktas: the ombudsman experiment
Fifty years of bills, one Anna Hazare movement, and an Act that took five years to get its first head: the story of the Lokpal and the uneven Lokayukta experiment in the states.
27 September 2026 · 16 min read
Governance
Data protection and the DPDP Act, 2023: privacy meets the state
The DPDP Act’s consent-based architecture, the Data Protection Board, penalties up to Rs 250 crore, wide state exemptions, and the privacy-versus-transparency collision with the RTI Act.
27 September 2026 · 21 min read
Governance
Right to Information: the 2005 Act, the 2019 changes and the DPDP question
The RTI Act’s salient features, the 2019 amendment that changed the tenure and salaries of Information Commissioners, the coverage battles over parties and judges, and how the DPDP Act’s Section 44(3) reshapes Section 8(1)(j).
27 September 2026 · 25 min read