Rakesh Shukla has 30+ years’ of experience in law, constitutional jurisprudence, human rights, and psychodynamic therapy. Explorations in the interface of law, social movements for change, and psychoanalysis are the major areas of his work.
'Spirits and demons are only projections of man's own emotional impulses.'
– Totem and Taboo, Sigmund Freud (1913)
Failure in Love, Evil-Eye of the Enemy, Lack of
Laws on sex work remain among the most ambiguous pieces of legislation in Southasia. Each country has specific laws on the issue, with those that share a colonial past retaining
The issue of caste-based reservations continues to simmer in India, with an ongoing tussle taking place between the legislature and the judiciary. In January, the country's Supreme Court
Picking up any book that bears a quaint gramophone, a derby, a tennis racket and the British flag on the cover brings to mind a light-hearted tale my otherwise serious
We are certainly holding our own in the worldwide competition of absurd laws.
In the beginning was the Preamble to the Constitution, with the people, in 1950, proclaiming India to
In a society where hagiography is the norm, one approaches with trepidation a book proclaiming to be an account of the contributions of a single individual to the sphere of
