Saving the Saviours: Rethinking Resident Duty Hours in India
Introduction The resident doctors in India often face systemic exploitation and inhumane working conditions. Despite forming a crucial backbone of the healthcare system, their labour and work remain significantly undervalued. Hospital systems are often understaffed and underdeveloped, with an overwhelming patient load due to India’s large population. As a result, all clerical and non-clerical work falls directly under the supervision of the resident doctors. The average worki
Sirjandeep Kaur & Lakshita Agarwal
Mar 22
Beyond Individual Complaints: The Advantages of Positive Duties on the State in Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law
Introduction Traditionally, anti-discrimination law has relied on a complaints-led model to redress discrimination. This model requires the victim to identify an act of discrimination and take it to an adjudicatory body to attract a compensatory remedy. On the other hand, a competing emergent model for remedies is that of positive duties on the state to redress discrimination. Positive duties are proactive rather than reactive, aiming to identify and redress unlawful discrim
Jwalika Balaji
Mar 9
From Shield to Sword: How Safe Harbour Became the State’s Tool of Platform Control
Introduction Recent regulatory interventions, including the amendment concerning Synthetically Generated Information , the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s advisory on unlawful and obscene content , and the evolving understanding of ‘reasonable efforts’ under the intermediary liability framework, reflect a broader shift toward heightened compliance expectations within India’s platform governance regime. While each of these measures has been analysed indi
Yukta Chordia & Kanika Chhajerh
Mar 6