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Text Size: A+ In India over 121 languages are spoken but the law is inaccessible in these languages on the Internet due to the preference and importance given to English and Hindi by the Government for the purposes of legislative drafting. Yet, the right to access translated text is guaranteed by the Constitution of India, 1950 and is one of the core aspects of access to justice and open data, thus underlining the need for better dissemination efforts by the government to make citizens equal participants in a democracy. The COVID-19 lockdown has shown how critical this issue of lack of ac...

Why legal reform remains an afterthought Post-1991, laws primarily changed because of WTO obligations or competition, and not because it was explicitly on the agenda. Art: Hesitant Attempt by Gigi Scaria, 2018, Bronze (Courtesy: Gigi Scaria/Chemould Prescott Road) 9 min read Share Via Read Full Story Among the films to watch in 2021 is Kaagaz, a biographical drama directed by Satish Kaushik that documents the tribulations of a man called Lal Bihari. This gentleman was declared dead in 1975, struggled to prove that he was alive (though deceased in the records) and was finally declared alive ...