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The fourth book in the INDIAN LIVES series that I edit is out. Peter Heehs’s magnificent biography recounts in riveting detail how Mirra Alfassa made the journey from the art salons of Paris to becoming ‘The Mother’ of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Available online and in bookshops.

🆕 Symposium 📝 Tom Daly (Tomás Daly) responds to Theunis Roux's essay by using the concept of “phantom constitutions” to pose questions about decolonial constitutional thought and practice, and their relationship with existing and alternative constitutional forms. ⬇️⬇️

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Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History by Ornit Shani and Rohit is out later this year with Cambridge University Press (cover below) and Penguin India cambridge.org/core/books/ass…

"Mother of Democracy" hindustantimes.com/india-news/ash…

Shocking, this arrest of Prof Ali Kahn Mehbubabad, Ashoka University. Please read this post by him and ask yourself: What is anti women about this? How does this spread religious hatred or strife? And how on earth does it constitute an “Act endangering sovereignty, unity and

I condemn the arrest of Ashoka University Professor over his Social Media Post On Op Sindoor — because he called the briefings as “Optics”. I may not agree with his statement but I will go to the end of the earth for Freedom of Speech. ndtv.com/india-news/ash…

New blog post: How to Read a Sentence: The Supreme Court’s Order in Mahmudabad’s Case -- indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/how…

Wrote a review of Amogh Dhar Sharma's 'The Backstage of Democracy'. It's a fascinating account of external political consultants--PK and the like--and how they have come to dominate electioneering in India. DM for a preprint version! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

🆕Symposium Post📝 New symposium post: To round out the Workshop my Paper symposium focussed on his World Comparative Law / VRUe article, ‘Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa’, Theunis Roux responds to the symposium contributors ⬇️

Very grateful to Anmol Jain for his generous review of my book 'The Backstage of Democracy' in Party Politics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…