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In today’s hyperlinked world, an accused person can be convicted by the court of public opinion before they ever set foot in the courtroom. When tweets, livestreams and hashtag campaigns precede evidence, the prospects of a fair trial become far more fragile. The digital age has transformed how we consume and comment on criminal justice, from broadcast debates to real-time social media verdicts. But this very transformation presents a grave threat, which is the erosion of the fair trial...

“Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”  — Mark Twain Few quotes capture the politics of scarcity as perfectly as Twain’s words. Across the globe, rivers that once symbolised abundance have now become flashpoints for legal and political conflict. From the Cauvery in India to the Colorado in the United States and the Nile in Africa, water has transcended its ecological role to become a tool of power, sovereignty, and federal negotiation. As climate change intensifies...

Imagine receiving a video that appears to show you or someone you know saying something you never said, doing something you never did. It spreads quickly online, catches fire across social platforms, and suddenly, your reputation is in tatters, your privacy breached, consent ignored. Welcome to the world of deepfakes and the legal grey zones that still characterise their regulation in India. The rise of synthetic media technologies, popularly called deepfakes, has revolutionised how we...