When Judges Turn Their Back

Arghya is the Founder and Research Director at Vidhi. His areas of specialisation are constitutional law and regulation of the digital economy. He has served on a number of government committees including the B.N. Srikrishna-led committee of experts on a data protection framework for India. Arghya has a number of academic publications on the Supreme Court and the Constitution in leading law journals such as Law Quarterly Review and Public Law. He is also a columnist at The Telegraph and The Times of India. He is the author of three books: "Independence and Accountability of the Indian Higher Judiciary" (Cambridge, 2019), "Hamīñ Ast? A Biography of Article 370" (co-authored - Navi Books, 2022) and most recently "The Colonial Constitution" (Juggernaut, 2023). Prior to founding Vidhi, he was at Oxford as a Lecturer in Administrative Law at Pembroke College.

Aditya is Lead, Vidhi Bengal. He was formerly a Senior Resident Fellow with the Research Director’s Office at Vidhi, where he advised Ministries of the Government of India in drafting legislation across various sectors such as tribunal reforms, cinematography, regulation of nuclear energy, MSMEs, and the repeal of obsolete legislation. He contributes regularly to national dailies such as the Times of India and Hindustan Times on issues of public law and policy. Aditya is also a part-time PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Wright Rogers scholar and Lucy Cavendish Law Enrichment scholar, studying universal adult franchise in India. He holds a BA LLB (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and an LLM (First Class) from the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded two Faculty Prizes for Advanced Public Law and Comparative Legal History and the Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for his contributions to Lucy Cavendish College.