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Sanjay Hegde

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A Supreme Court Metro Station Closed to Prevent Protests Is a Symbol of India's Undeclared Emergency

Listen to this article: In the dark days of the Emergency, someone slipped a small notice into the classified columns of the Times of India. It read...

25.07.2026 30

The Wire

Sanjay Hegde

To Be Young Was Very Heaven

At Jantar Mantar in Delhi, young India has pitched camp. Students roll up their bedding at dawn. They sing, they argue, they nurse their bruises. They...

25.07.2026 20

National Herald

Sanjay Hegde

How SIR Is Democracy's Kill Switch: R Rajagopal's Passport Story

Listen to this article: R. Rajagopal edited a well-known Kolkata based newspaper for many years. This year, he discovered that the Republic was no...

29.06.2026 20

The Wire

Sanjay Hegde

Of bail pleas and how courts learn to do better

In January this year, the Supreme Court refused bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam. In May, it granted bail to Syed Iftikhar Andrabi. Both men are...

22.05.2026 30

National Herald

Sanjay Hegde

Time again to defend what is ours

05.07.2025 30

National Herald

Sanjay Hegde