Sanjiv Kumar

Member, Central Administrative Tribunal, retired IAS officer

Sanjiv Kumar

The electorate’s right to know and the electorate’s right to choose need not be treated as competing values. The law should strive to protect both

The gatekeeper of democracy

4 minutes ago

4 min read

India’s constitutional design, by contrast, is strikingly minimal on appointments and stringent on removals of state administrators

Selecting gatekeepers of merit

09 Apr 2026

5 min read

Estimates suggest that India has 8-10 crore domestic workers. To exclude such labour from statutory wage protection is not regulatory restraint

Privacy not a shield for exploitation

12 Feb 2026

4 min read

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