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Nishant Gokhale

What the Crime Records Bureau’s data says about conditions in India’s prisons (and what it doesn’t)

Prison Statistics India 2016, published in April after a long, unexplained delay, omits details about caste and religious identities of the prison population.

Nishant Gokhale
· May 21, 2019 · 08:00 am
Proposal to change name of Indian Forest Service may escalate a simmering inter-ministerial turf war

The debate over rights for forest communities has for long divided the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Ministry of Forests.

Nishant Gokhale
· Nov 16, 2018 · 06:30 am
Will the Maharashtra plastic ban choke on its reliance on criminal penalties?

Criminal sanctions are expensive, time consuming and tend to target those least able to defend themselves.

Nishant Gokhale
· Jun 30, 2018 · 08:00 am

The four judges have left a trail of unsettling questions. And there are no easy answers

How the institution responds to the challenge it faces will be a true test of its character and the values it stands for.

Nishant Gokhale
· Jan 14, 2018 · 08:00 am