Vikrant Mehta
Editor-in-Chief

Vikrant Mehta

Legal affairs editor with three decades in Indian courtrooms — first as a litigation practitioner, then as a legal correspondent covering the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court. Now leads VeritaSerum's editorial board, holding every piece to the standards he learned watching judges tear apart sloppy submissions: cite your source, state the ratio, skip the adjectives.

Arbitration & ADR

Divya Ramachandran

Divya Ramachandran

Mediation & Dispute Resolution

Mediation and ADR correspondent covering court-annexed mediation, the Mediation Act 2023, and settlement success rates. Provides the data on alternative dispute resolution that courts lack.

1 articles
Harish Bhat

Harish Bhat

International Arbitration

International arbitration correspondent covering ICC, SIAC, and LCIA India-related disputes. Tracks every Section 34 and Section 48 challenge in Indian courts. Explains why enforcement is where arbitration succeeds or fails.

1 articles
Pradeep Banerjee

Pradeep Banerjee

Commercial Arbitration

Commercial arbitration analyst tracking institutional arbitration growth in India. Covers MCIA, DIAC, and ad hoc proceedings. Explains arbitrator appointments, fee structures, and the business of dispute resolution.

1 articles

Constitutional Law

Aditi Raghavan

Aditi Raghavan

Fundamental Rights & Constitutional Challenges

Constitutional law analyst who tracks every Article 14, 19, and 21 challenge that reaches the Supreme Court. Her analysis pieces break down bench opinions into what they actually mean for citizens, not just for lawyers.

2 articles
Ananya Deshpande

Ananya Deshpande

Free Speech & Media Law

Free speech specialist who traces how colonial-era restrictions on expression survive in modern Indian law. Covers every sedition case, every 66A successor, every information technology regulation that touches speech.

1 articles
Karthik Venkatesh

Karthik Venkatesh

Legal Education & Institutional Reform

Legal education reformer who covers how courts, law schools, and the bar interact. Writes about NLAT controversies, BCI regulations, and what legal training needs to look like for the next generation.

1 articles
Manoj Kumar

Manoj Kumar

Free Speech & Environmental Enforcement

Free speech and environmental law correspondent who covers two beats where citizens most frequently invoke constitutional rights against the state. Tracks Section 144 orders, internet shutdowns, and pollution tribunal failures.

1 articles
Meera Iyer

Meera Iyer

Civil Liberties & Digital Rights

Civil liberties commentator who writes about the rights people actually use daily: assembly, movement, privacy, digital expression. Her columns connect Supreme Court doctrine to the protest, the phone search, the social media post.

1 articles
Rajeev Krishnamurthy

Rajeev Krishnamurthy

Comparative Constitutional Law

Comparative constitutional scholar who places Indian judgments alongside decisions from the US Supreme Court, South African Constitutional Court, and European Court of Human Rights. Shows where India leads and where it trails.

1 articles
Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

Media Law & Election Law

Media law and political regulation analyst who covers election law, defamation cases, and the interface between political speech and legal consequences. Former broadcast journalist turned legal commentator.

1 articles
Shalini Kapoor

Shalini Kapoor

Empirical Constitutional Studies

Empirical legal researcher who reads data where others read doctrine. She tracks Supreme Court patterns quantitatively: how many petitions get heard, which benches grant stays, and where outcomes diverge from stated law.

2 articles
Suresh Pillai

Suresh Pillai

Judicial Accountability & Independence

Judicial accountability advocate who writes about what courts owe citizens. Covers collegium appointments, judicial delays, contempt proceedings, and the gap between constitutional promise and courtroom reality.

1 articles
Swati Pandey

Swati Pandey

Strategic Constitutional Litigation

Constitutional litigation tracker covering Article 32 petitions, writ jurisdiction disputes, and strategic constitutional challenges. Explains not just what the court decided, but how the litigation strategy was constructed.

1 articles
Vikram Narayan

Vikram Narayan

Democratic Theory & Federalism

Political philosopher turned legal commentator. Writes on how constitutional principles play out in Indian democracy, with particular focus on separation of powers and federalism disputes.

2 articles

Corporate Law

Gaurav Tandon

Gaurav Tandon

Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code

IBC and insolvency specialist who covers every major NCLT proceeding, CIRP, and liquidation order. Tracks resolution plans, haircuts for creditors, and the evolving NCLAT jurisprudence that shapes Indian bankruptcy law.

2 articles
Ishita Mehta

Ishita Mehta

Securities Law & Capital Markets

Securities law analyst tracking SEBI orders, insider trading prosecutions, and capital markets regulation. Breaks down every SAT appeal and SEBI circular for investors who need to understand compliance.

2 articles
Nitin Patel

Nitin Patel

Banking & Finance Law

Banking and finance law reporter covering RBI circulars, NPA resolutions, and restructuring frameworks. Explains how banking regulation actually works, from the circular to the courtroom to the balance sheet.

1 articles
Rohit Saxena

Rohit Saxena

Mergers & Acquisitions

M&A deal tracker who covers every major corporate acquisition, demerger, and hostile takeover in India. Explains CCI approvals, SEBI objections, and Companies Act provisions in terms deal-makers actually use.

2 articles

Court Reporting

Aarti Sharma

Aarti Sharma

Supreme Court Reporting

Supreme Court beat reporter filing real-time dispatches from Court 1 to Court 15. Known for capturing bench observations that never make it into reported orders but shape how lawyers prepare their next arguments.

19 articles
Amit Mukherjee

Amit Mukherjee

Investigative Legal Journalism

Investigative legal journalist who uses RTI applications, property records, and financial disclosures to expose judicial and regulatory failures. His investigations have prompted 4 Supreme Court suo motu proceedings.

18 articles
Kabir Fernandes

Kabir Fernandes

Law Firm Intelligence & Rankings

Legal market intelligence analyst who tracks revenue, headcount, and deal volume across India's top 100 law firms. His annual rankings and surveys are cited by managing partners when setting strategy.

19 articles
Neha Chauhan

Neha Chauhan

Legal Profession & Career Trends

Legal profession trends reporter who covers associate salaries, diversity metrics, pro bono mandates, and wellness programs across Indian law firms. The data she publishes shapes recruitment and retention policy.

18 articles
Rekha Bansal

Rekha Bansal

Legal Market & Judicial Appointments

Legal market journalist who covers law firm mergers, lateral moves, partner compensations, and the business of law in India. Breaks news on judicial appointments before official notifications.

18 articles
Sarita Prasad

Sarita Prasad

Long-Form Legal Analysis

Long-form legal journalist who writes 3,000-word case studies on India's most complex legal battles. Her series on custodial deaths won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Impact Journalism.

18 articles
Vivek Menon

Vivek Menon

Legal Technology & Digital Justice

Digital-first legal journalist who helped build India's real-time court reporting ecosystem. Now covers how legal technology reshapes access to justice, from e-filing portals to AI-assisted drafting.

18 articles

Criminal Law

Deepak Malhotra

Deepak Malhotra

White-Collar Crime & Economic Offences

White-collar crime analyst who dissects PMLA proceedings, ED raids, and economic offences prosecutions. Former corporate lawyer who switched to covering the intersection of money, power, and criminal law.

3 articles
Nisha Verma

Nisha Verma

Criminal Defense & Trial Advocacy

Criminal defense reporter who covers bail hearings, trial strategies, and the lived reality of Indian criminal courts. She writes about what actually happens between charge sheet and judgment.

3 articles
Rajendra Goswami

Rajendra Goswami

Anti-Terror Law & National Security

Covers terrorism prosecutions, UAPA cases, and national security law. Tracks every NIA charge sheet and UAPA detention from filing to final order, documenting conviction rates the government rarely discloses.

3 articles

Environmental Law

Manish Tiwari

Manish Tiwari

Forest Rights & Environmental Justice

Forest rights and community rights writer covering Scheduled Tribes, FRA implementation, and environmental justice. Gives voice to communities whose land is at stake in every clearance decision.

1 articles
Sunita Rao

Sunita Rao

Environmental PIL & Pollution Law

Environmental PIL reporter who tracks every NGT order, every pollution deadline, every forest clearance challenge. Has covered 40+ landmark environmental cases from filing to compliance monitoring.

2 articles

Family Law

Prateek Sharma

Prateek Sharma

Succession & HUF Partition Law

HUF and succession law specialist covering partition suits, inheritance disputes, and the Hindu Succession Act amendments. Tracks every Supreme Court ruling on coparcenary rights and joint family property.

5 articles
Rashmi Kulkarni

Rashmi Kulkarni

Family Law & Domestic Violence

Family law reporter covering matrimonial disputes, maintenance litigation, custody battles, and the gap between domestic violence law on paper and its enforcement in family courts across India.

4 articles

Human Rights

Arjun Bhattacharya

Arjun Bhattacharya

Right to Health & Public Health Law

Public health law specialist who writes about the right to health, drug pricing, clinical trial regulation, and mental health jurisprudence. His coverage connects WHO guidelines to Indian courtroom orders.

1 articles
Dev Sharma

Dev Sharma

LGBTQ Rights & Equality Jurisprudence

Equality jurisprudence writer covering LGBTQ rights, anti-discrimination law, and personal liberty under Article 21. His work on Section 377 aftermath and transgender rights legislation is widely cited.

1 articles
Jaya Mohan

Jaya Mohan

Northeast India & Tribal Law

Northeast India correspondent covering AFSPA, inner-line permit regulations, tribal law, and minority rights in India's eight northeastern states. The only legal journalist with ground reporting from all eight capitals.

1 articles
Lakshmi Nair

Lakshmi Nair

Women's Rights & Gender Justice

Women's rights lawyer and commentator who covers gender justice from workplace harassment law to triple talaq. Her writing connects constitutional equality provisions to the daily battles women fight in Indian courts.

1 articles
Pooja Agarwal

Pooja Agarwal

Public Interest & Constitutional Litigation

Public interest litigation analyst who translates complex constitutional cases for non-lawyers. Her explainers on Supreme Court hearings reach 2 million readers monthly across social media and VeritaSerum.

1 articles
Sneha Reddy

Sneha Reddy

Gender Violence & State Accountability

Reports on gender violence cases, communal violence prosecutions, and state accountability. Tracks cases from FIR to final judgment, documenting where the justice system delivers and where it fails survivors.

1 articles
Tarun Sethi

Tarun Sethi

LGBTQ Rights & Anti-Discrimination

Equality and anti-discrimination law writer covering transgender rights legislation, disability rights, and affirmative action jurisprudence. Tracks the gap between progressive Supreme Court rulings and ground-level implementation.

1 articles

Intellectual Property

Arun Krishnan

Arun Krishnan

Patent Law & Access to Medicines

Patent law analyst covering pharmaceutical patents, compulsory licensing, and the access-to-medicines debate. Demystifies Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act and explains why Indian patent law matters globally.

2 articles
Tanya Gupta

Tanya Gupta

IP Reform & Transparency

IP ecosystem investigator who tracks trademark trolling, copyright enforcement patterns, and the Patent Office's examination quality. Uses RTI data to expose gaps between IP policy and IP practice.

1 articles

Labour Law

Kavita Iyer

Kavita Iyer

Labour Law & Employment Regulation

Labour and employment law writer covering the four new Labour Codes, gig worker rights, industrial disputes, and workplace safety regulation. Reports from factory floors and platform economy hearings.

3 articles

Legal Policy

Aarav Singh

Aarav Singh

Legislative Policy & Digital Regulation

Legal policy analyst who covers legislative drafting, law commission reports, and regulatory impact assessments. Explains what new legislation actually changes versus what the press release claims.

1 articles
Nikhil Ranjan

Nikhil Ranjan

Civilizational Jurisprudence & Legal Pluralism

Writes about the intersection of Indian civilizational values and modern law. Covers Places of Worship Act cases, cultural property disputes, and questions of legal pluralism in India's constitutional framework.

1 articles
Ritu Ahluwalia

Ritu Ahluwalia

Jurisprudence & Legal Theory

Legal theorist who writes about jurisprudence, the philosophy of punishment, and what Indian law borrows from and contributes to global legal thought. Her pieces ask whether Indian courts have a consistent theory of justice.

1 articles

Property Law

Vinay Reddy

Vinay Reddy

Property Law & Real Estate Regulation

Property law analyst covering land acquisition disputes, RERA compliance, title litigation, and the Transfer of Property Act. Tracks every major real estate case from trial court to Supreme Court.

1 articles

Tax Law

Ajay Khanna

Ajay Khanna

International Tax & Cross-Border Transactions

International tax strategist who covers transfer pricing disputes, DTAA interpretations, and cross-border investment structures. Makes the Mauritius route, Singapore route, and GAAR understandable for non-specialists.

6 articles
Kunal Bhargava

Kunal Bhargava

Economic Legislation & Fiscal Policy

Economic law columnist who writes about GST disputes, fiscal federalism, and the constitutional dimensions of taxation and spending. His weekly column connects finance bill provisions to constitutional guarantees.

6 articles
Padma Subramaniam

Padma Subramaniam

Tax Litigation & Constitutional Taxation

Tax litigation analyst who covers every significant Income Tax, GST, and Customs tribunal ruling. Her columns break down ITAT and CESTAT orders into actionable takeaways for practitioners and taxpayers.

6 articles

Technology Law

Diya Chakraborty

Diya Chakraborty

Internet Governance & Platform Law

Internet governance specialist covering platform accountability, algorithmic regulation, and the global debate over content moderation. Writes from a perspective that connects Indian regulation to Brussels, Washington, and Singapore.

1 articles
Ritika Choudhary

Ritika Choudhary

Data Protection & Digital Rights

Digital rights lawyer covering data protection, open source licensing, and platform regulation from both Indian and international perspectives. Reports on DPDP Act implementation with ground-level compliance data.

1 articles
Siddharth Jain

Siddharth Jain

Cyber Law & Digital Governance

Cyber law correspondent covering IT Act prosecutions, data breach litigation, deepfake regulation, and India's evolving digital governance framework. First to report on most CERT-In directives and their compliance implications.

1 articles
Varun Kapur

Varun Kapur

Internet Freedom & Platform Regulation

Internet freedom reporter who tracks surveillance reform, content takedown orders, and IT Rules compliance. Covers every instance where government regulation intersects with user rights online.

1 articles