TIF Collection

Marriage and Violence

No Country for (Married) Women

'A culture where the rights of women and sexual and gender minorities can be wholly erased without even having to defend such a move clearly shows where the centre of power lies, and how it…
▶10-Mar-2025
Kunal Ambasta

Criminalising Marital Rape in India

The judiciary's disinclination to criminalise marital rape flows from a vertical approach to constitutional rights, which fosters a public-private divide to the disadvantage of women. A…
▶31-Jul-2023
Swarati Sabhapandit

Where is the Data on the 'Misuse' of 498-A?

The popular discourse around the notion that laws enacted to protect women are being ‘grossly misused’ seems to have reached a fever pitch. The Supreme Court, itself, in the past has called it “legal…
▶11-Mar-2025
Ruchira Goswami

Dowry Murders: Lingering Tragedy, Emerging Hope

The strongest dowry murder rates in India correlate with skewed sex ratios – mainly in the North. These rates have fallen fastest where bride shortages are most severe. Hopefully, this signals a…
▶27-Feb-2025
Peter Mayer

Sport and Nationalism

Essay

The Nation State and Modern Sport

'National feeling is not something that has been injected into sport by swaggering players, corrupt politicians, and a scheming media looking to boost ratings; it is native to modern sport,…
▶08-Jul-2021
Mukul Kesavan

Marketing Muck and Rahu Kalams — The Underbelly of the 2026 T20 World Cup

The cricket on the field has been full of joy, but the cricketers have played under the shadow of an overbearing BCCI; the Board's uber-nationalism has sullied the game and its carte blanche to…
▶05-Mar-2026
Sharda Ugra
Book
2036 Olympics-II

The Discontents of India’s Drive to Host the Olympics

Cities that have hosted the Olympics experience economic and social distress during the preparations and thereafter. Should India follow the same path? It is not sportspersons' desire but a…
▶25-Sep-2024
Priyansh
Book
India at 75

The Journey since 1947-V: Hockey in India’s Blood

Indian hockey’s golden age coincided with the first decades of a young nation, creating larger-than-life men, a whirling galaxy of giants. Through the ups and downs in India’s global standing in the…
▶11-Nov-2022
Sharda Ugra

Fragile Citizenship

When the State Always Doubts Your Identity

Exercises like the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls presage a state of affairs where documents and IDs can never prove sound identification and where citizenship of the ordinary resident…
▶04-Sep-2025
Nayanika Mathur, Tarangini Sriraman

Faith-based Citizenship

The Citizenship Amendment Bill and the pan-Indian National Register of Citizens mark a foundational shift in the Indian conception of citizenship, providing paths to citizenship for some and driving…
▶31-Oct-2019
Niraja Gopal Jayal

The SIR, A Long Road to Exile?

There is a lack of legal clarity on what happens to those excluded from the Special Intensive Revisions of electoral rolls across the country. If Assam is any indication, it will be the beginning of…
▶30-Apr-2026
Darshana Mitra
Essay

Datafication and the Erosion of Citizenship Rights

India’s digital welfare state recasts citizenship by translating complex social identities into data categories. Driven by efficiency and targeting, this shift has entrenched opaque systems that…
▶01-Apr-2026
Rajendran Narayanan, Padmini Ramesh

Delimitation

Book
Delimitation

India’s Delimitation Dilemma: Challenges and Consequences

Expanding the Lok Sabha proportionally while preserving existing seats & equally distributing Rajya Sabha seats among states could resolve India’s delimitation deadlock without upsetting…
▶16-Oct-2024
Mohd. Sanjeer Alam
Book
Delimitation

Delimitation, Democracy, and Federalism: Options and Solutions

The challenges posed by a delimitation exercise that would result in the North gaining at the expense of the South can be met with a different approach altogether. We could have instead an expansion…
▶07-Oct-2024
Rangarajan R.

Empowering Local Governments in India’s Federal Structure

Panchayats and municipalities are rarely given their due as the third pillar of federalism. The challenges posed by the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies can be side-stepped by…
▶26-Feb-2025
Sunil Kumar

Ambedkar’s Vision and the Search for Equitable Federalism

The 2026 delimitation risks widening India’s north–south divide by reducing southern representation. Reviving B.R. Ambedkar’s idea of smaller states could restore balance, fairness, and cooperative…
▶31-Oct-2025
Sudha Pai