As I grow older, the range of responses upon entering any museum is becoming narrower and narrower. These days, I start with pessimism and usually end with irrepressible anger. Spending time in East Anglia—to imply spending time anywhere outside of Cambridge–has been doing strange things to my abilities to perceive and process information patiently. One …
On the Voice Referendum…
There are limits, disciplinary or otherwise, to how legal knowledge is perceived and communicated outside—to people and structures that do not have compatible receptors for receiving and processing such knowledge. The lack of familiarity with the tools of knowledge production and the norms of functioning compounds the difficulties of perception and communication. By these, I …
Resilience and the Law
I belong to a small minority of legal scholars that do transdisciplinary work (as opposed to less intriguing interdisciplinary work). My work on law, political economy, colonialism, and environmental and climate justice tends to surprise people, even within my discipline. I find it useful to call myself interdisciplinary so that I can quarrel with all …
Cambridge
I am sitting at my desk, looking out at the line-up of ash, poplar and lime trees. There have been plenty of large windows and trees beyond them to gaze at in the last five years. I have been lucky in terms of houses, however financially unviable they turned out to be. I finished my …
For the love of constancy…Hit the Road!
When you watch a very good movie, none other than film critics or film studies academics might feel compelled to write about it. However, when you watch an excellent movie and you are an academic with a practically dead blog, you are often tempted to write a line or two—for the sake of reviving the …
Acknowledgment
Trying to thank people who have been a part of the past three years while also teetering on the brink of the word limit is a difficult task. Nevertheless, it cannot be ignored. What an immense pleasure it was to research and write this thesis. Not often does one love every day of work and …
Reflections from an Annoying Week (ft. Environmental Law)
There is a charm in immediate responses. Some things make you furious - so much that the only level of engagement required is swearing at it and shutting it out of your mind. Some require a good natter with a friend. A few demand an instant expletive and some degree of reflexive engagement later on …
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Justice and the Law: Estrangement and Affection
Sometimes, one wonders which one of us has our back turned to the world. Justice might be blindfolded in the associational space afforded to it in the popular imagination. Iustitia stands with her eyes forced shut, with a glorious sword, which only she knows how to wield well. Sometimes, Prudence lingers around with her snake …
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Remembrance Translation
These days, there is hardly any time to write things that are unrelated to work. The joys of translating an entire novel ended abruptly after the first chapter of my thesis. Frankly, I had no hopes of keeping up that habit. Both time and worlds seem to shrink at an incredible pace these days. Yet, …
Akkamma’s Yarn
Original story in Kannada by K.P.Poorna Chandra Tejaswi The forest that stretches behind contractor Maalemestri's hovel is what we know as the Mudremane reserve forest. The thick forest that spreads across a couple of mountain ranges has been a safe haven for the wild boars that plague our agricultural fields. As soon as these rogue …
Defiant Ecologies 