For too long, the marble corridors of India’s highest court have felt insulated from the grit of the marketplace. Decisions often arrived wrapped in high-minded constitutional abstraction, leaving the average taxpayer, homebuyer, and job-seeker feeling like a bystander in their own democracy.
A 22-year-old law student from Pune, Sharmishta Panoli, is currently behind bars. Her offense? A now-deleted Instagram reel in which she criticized the silence of Bollywood over Operation Sindoor and used words some deemed communal. She deleted the video. She apologized. But none of that mattered to the West Bengal Police, who travelled across the […]















