Newspaper / Magazine Editorials
- Practice made perfect, India Today, June 21, 2019.
- Bar Council of India’s discriminatory age cap on study of law is nonsensical, The Print, April 2, 2019.
- The SC ruling that a blind or a deaf person can’t be a judge goes against the Constitution’s spirit, Hindustan Times, January 26, 2019.
- From trial court to Supreme Court and back, the Monsanto patent battle is far from over, The Print, January 11, 2019.
- Disney can use ‘Hakuna Matata’, Hindustan Times, December 31, 2018.
- Immoral compass?, Indian Business Law Journal, October 12, 2018 (co-authored with Pankhuri Agarwal).
- Twisting the Truth Around Aadhaar in the Land of Luddites, The Wire, June 27, 2018.
- Make pharmaceutical patents work in the public interest, Business Line, February 2, 2018.
- Beauty and the Regulatory Beast, The Hindu, August 14, 2017 (on gene editing techniques, designer babies and regulatory concerns).
- Measuring Judicial Merit, The Hindu, October 11, 2017 (on working out a rigorous metric to measure judicial performance).
- Times Now Versus Arnab Goswami: Who will win the IP battle?, News Laundry, May 24, 2017.
- Time to Break In India, The Hindu, February 16, 2017 (on how we need to rescript India’s IP regime).
- Publishers vs Pupils: Delhi High Court has struck a blow for the right to copy copyrighted material, Scroll, December 13, 2016.
- Intellectual Property Law vs Competition Law, Livemint, December 7, 2016.
- Generics vs Big Pharma Reloaded, The Hindu, November 23, 2016 (on the move to introduce data exclusivity).
- Leonard Cohen: Of Love, Light and Copyright, The Wire, November 16, 2016.
- Copyright as Exception, Indian Express, October 19, 2016 (on the DU photocopy copyright case).
- The Battle over BT Cotton, The Hindu, October 4, 2016 (on the patent battles between GMO producers and seed companies).
- Delhi High Court Virtually Busts ‘Property’ Rhetoric in the IPR Narrative, DNA, September 22, 2016.
- In Bollywood's Battle Against Piracy, A Neutral Ombudsman Might Be the Answer, The Wire, August 23, 2016.
- Judging Judges by the Length of their Judgments is a Bad Idea, The Wire, June 16, 2016 (critiquing tendency to judge judges by pages).
- India’s New IP Policy: A Bare Act, Deccan Herald, June 5, 2016.
- An IP Policy with no Innovation, The Hindu, May 17, 2016 (critique of India’s new IP policy).
- Patents over Patients, Indian Express (critiquing government move to throttle public health safeguards), March 14, 2016.
- An Extra-Legal League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Wire, June 25, 2015 (critiquing the closed cabals that control the legal ecosystem).25. An Extra-Legal League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Wire, June 25, 2015 (critiquing the closed cabals that control the legal ecosystem).
- Jugaad Justice?, Livemint, April 27, 2015 (on creativity in the Indian Judiciary).
- These Rancid Rankings, Indian Express, February 10, 2015 (critiquing IP rankings for their flawed methodology).
- Patented Price Gouging and the Enduring Enigma of Drug Costs, Livemint, December 17, 2014 (advocating that drug makers be forced to disclose individual R&D costs for drugs).
- Fixing the Tribunal Mess, Financial Express, October 10, 2014 (analyzing the SC decision striking down the National Tax Tribunal as Unconstitutional).
- New Drug Era, Indian Express, September 27, 2014, (highlighting the erosion of the innovator:generic divide).
- Judging a Democratic Deficit, Indian Express, September 9, 2014 (advocating that there be public consultation in all Indian law/policy making).
- Patently Positive, Financial Express, June 20, 2014 (arguing that Indian IP law is not biased and protective of IP owners too).
- Innovation that Includes, Indian Express, April 26, 2014 (discussing the need to democratize the innovation ecosystem and make it “inclusive”).
- From Ambedkar to Doniger: Can Copyright Law Rescue Books at Risk, Firstpost, March 28, 2014 (discussing compulsory licensing, copyright and free speech).
- India’s IP Regime: Patent Error, Indian Express, February 20, 2014 (critiquing the US industry ranking of Indian IP).
- When Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair, The Hindu, December 30, 2013 (discussing the Khobrogade scandal and sexual harassment controversies in India and why a strict legal view is not the answer).
- Patent Lies and Convenient Truths, The Hindu, September 4, 2013 (discussing the hypocrisy of the US in the international IP dialogues).
- Why Students Need the Right to Copy, The Hindu, April 26, 2013 (discussing the OUP copyright case against Delhi University pertaining to student photocopying).
- Patent with a Purpose, Indian Express, April 3, 2013 (analyzing the Novartis decision in the larger context of Pharma Innovation Policy).
- Publishers vs Students, Indian Express, August 30, 2012 (discussing the copyright photocopying controversy between Delhi University and book publishers).
- Set the Bar Higher, Indian Express, May 2012 (discussing the future of legal education reform in India).
- CLAT: A Question of Aptitude, Times of India, April 9, 2012 (discussing CLAT and strategies for preparation).
- A Life Saver, Indian Express, March 15, 2012 (discussing India’s first compulsory licensing order).
- Let’s Bridge the Democratic Deficit, Times of India (Crest Edition), April 16, 2011 (advocating for opening up the policy making process in the wake of Hazare agitation) (an excerpt of this piece can be viewed here).
- Govt for Legalising Parallel Import of Copyright Works; Publishers Oppose, Economic Times, March 17, 2011 (dealing with parallel imports and access to education).
- Remainders of the Day: A Case for Parallel Imports (dealing with parallel imports of books), Livemint, February 25, 2011.
- Build Patent Regime on Fortified Law, Economic Times, October 7, 2010 (with Prashant Reddy: discussing the unconstitutionality of the present compulsory licensing scheme).
- In the Service of Privacy, Times of India (Crest Edition), August 7, 2010 (advocating for a privacy legislation).
- Sold for a Song, Indian Express, July 16, 2010 (advocating for better remuneration and royalties for copyright artists, lyricists and musicians.
- Don’t Burn the Digital Books, Indian Express, February 11, 2010 (dealing with copyright issues in the context of the Google Book Search project).
- ‘3 Idiots’ and the Morality of Numbers, Indian Express, January 7, 2010 (dealing with the copyright controversy involving Chetan Bhagat and the movie 3 Idiots).
- Saying No to the Wrong Drugs, Indian Express, September 24, 2009 (dealing with definition of spurious drugs).
- Encouraging Drug Innovation, Livemint, August 27, 2009 (dealing with the revised Mashelkar Committee Report).
- The Law, Smoke and Mirrors, Livemint, March 12, 2009 (dealing with a ban on the advertising of “smoking”).
- Creating Informal IP Norms, Livemint, December 23, 2008.
- A Method to the Madness, Livemint, November 5, 2008 (discussing software patents in India).
- Indian Patent Bill: Let's Not be too Hasty, Sci-Dev, September 10, 2008 (Bayh Dole Bill).
- Make that Bargain Equitable, Livemint, August 26, 2008 (discussing WTO-TRIPS and cross retaliation).
- The Potency of a Middle Path, Livemint, July 9, 2008 (discussing patents and drug regulation).
- Break with Tradition, Indian Express, July 5, 2008 (discussing the Kerala TK protection model).
- Ranbaxy-Daiichi Merger: An Emerging Ardhnarishwar Model? DNA, July 10, 2008.
- The Rhetoric of Patent Busting, Indian Express, April 12, 2008 (discussing the Roche vs Cipla (Tarceva) litigation.
- Patent Problem, DNA, August 29, 2007 (discussing the pharma vs generic wars).
- Pharma MNCs Bullying Govt with China Sword?, Economic Times, August 14, 2007.
- Empty Allegations, DNA, February 25, 2007 (discussing the Mashelkar Committee Report Controversy).
- Baazee, Bajaj, and Bailing out the Law, Economic Times, February 5, 2005.
- Of Generics, Pharmaceutical Patents and the Countdown to 2005: A Note to Policy Makers, Economic Times, September 26, 2004 (dealing with pharma mailbox applications).