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Why India’s court digitisation keeps failing

India's judicial digitisation has created portals and platforms without changing how court records are created, managed or shared.

14.07.2026 10

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Siddarth Raman

India’s court websites are broken. It’s becoming a justice crisis

Indian courts debate AI, judicial reforms and pendency. But for most litigants, the biggest obstacle is far simpler: websites that crash and often get...

07.07.2026 20

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Delhi HC’s order on the right to be forgotten isn’t very practical—the internet never forgets

Indians have a right to be forgotten—though courts, Google, media & AI all remember too well.

09.06.2026 30

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Indian courts are operating like a lottery. They need smarter case scheduling

Our court scheduling has been unpredictable for so long that every participant has adapted to it. Litigants, too, have learned that non-appearance is...

23.03.2026 60

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NCLT bottleneck hinders India’s M&A boom. Govt’s fast-track framework ignores the real problem

The question is no longer whether India can create fast tracks. It already has. The question is whether the main track—and the regulators who feed...

12.01.2026 50

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Holding judges to account can’t be about collective conscience. It must fix a broken system

In this climate of populism, the clamour for accountability can easily transform into evaluation becoming a lever of control rather than a tool for...

01.12.2025 30

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