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Social Justice
Khap panchayats and honour crimes: law versus custom
Khap panchayats, honour crimes and the Supreme Court's answer: Shakti Vahini (2018), the missing central law, and the 2026 draft Karnataka Bill.
1 October 2026 · 15 min read
Polity
The Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025: UMEED, from provisions to the portal
The Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 renamed the law UMEED: Section 40 deleted, trusts separated, tribunals recomposed, every property on a central portal. Provisions table, UMEED registration status, and the Supreme Court's interim order.
30 September 2026 · 11 min read
Polity
The Missing Half of the Bench: Women in India's Judiciary
Only 11 women have ever sat on the Supreme Court. The data, the barriers, the reform agenda: women in India's judiciary, explained for Prelims and Mains.
30 September 2026 · 6 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
Polity
Jammu and Kashmir: From Article 370 to Union Territory Status
The full constitutional arc of Jammu and Kashmir: the 1947 accession, Articles 370 and 35A, the August 2019 abrogation, the Reorganisation Act, and the Supreme Court's December 2023 verdict.
27 September 2026 · 30 min read
Polity
Co-operative societies: the 97th Amendment, Part IXB and Article 43B
The 97th Amendment's three gifts to cooperatives, why the Supreme Court cut Part IXB down in Rajendra Shah (2021), and what the Ministry of Cooperation is building now.
27 September 2026 · 25 min read
Polity
High Courts and the subordinate judiciary: India's real constitutional courts
How High Courts are staffed and why their writ power is wider than the Supreme Court's, plus the subordinate judiciary, Gram Nyayalayas, Lok Adalats and the long-pending All India Judicial Service.
27 September 2026 · 33 min read
Polity
Supreme Court jurisdictions, explained: Articles 131, 132-134, 136, 143 and 32
The Supreme Court's five jurisdictions, original, appellate, advisory, writ and special leave, mapped article by article: who can approach, who holds the gate, and where each one stops.
27 September 2026 · 37 min read
Polity
Citizenship in India: Articles 5 to 11 and the CAA story
Citizenship in India from Articles 5-11 to the Citizenship Act, 1955: five ways to acquire it, three ways to lose it, single citizenship, and the complete CAA-NRC story with the 2024 Supreme Court rulings.
27 September 2026 · 30 min read