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THE MAN WHO WANTED HIS GOOD NAME BACK: MALICIOUS PROSECUTION, DEFAMATION, AND THE RIGHT TO REPUTATION IN FALSE MATRIMONIAL LITIGATION This article has been researched and written by Advocate Aarun Chanda, who practices divorce law in Mumbai and Pune. It is intended…

This article has been researched and written by Advocate Aarun Chanda, who practices divorce law in Mumbai and Pune. It is intended solely for academic purposes and should not be construed as legal advice. Readers are encouraged to consult a qualified lawyer…

SILENCE AT THE WEDDING: THE MADRAS HIGH COURT’S RECOGNITION OF EMOTIONAL EXCLUSION AS MATRIMONIAL CRUELTY This article has been researched and written by Advocate Aarun Chanda, who practices divorce law in Mumbai and Pune. It is intended solely for academic purposes and…

This article has been researched and written by Advocate Aarun Chanda, who practices divorce law in Mumbai and Pune. It is intended solely for academic purposes and should not be construed as legal advice. Readers are encouraged to consult a…

BEYOND ACQUITTAL: MALICIOUS PROSECUTION, DEFAMATION, AND THE RIGHT TO REPUTATION IN FALSE MATRIMONIAL LITIGATION UNDER INDIAN LAW This article has been researched and written by Advocate Aarun Chanda, who practices divorce law in Mumbai and Pune. It is intended solely for academic…

THE HUSBAND WHO DISCOVERED RELIGION ON A TUESDAY: REVISITING SARLA MUDGAL V. UNION OF INDIA This article has been researched and written by Advocate Aarun Chanda, who practices divorce law in Mumbai and Pune. It is intended solely for academic purposes and…

Somewhere in the middle years of my practice, I stopped believing that the question of lump-sum versus monthly maintenance was a technical one, to be settled by a quick calculation and a standard clause in the settlement deed. I now think it…

Reflections from thirty-one years at the Bar Early in my career, a client asked me a question I have never quite stopped turning over. His marriage had lasted a single day — the couple had separated before the wedding night…

Over the years I have come to think that a marriage ends twice. It ends once in the heart, quietly, on some ordinary evening no one marks on a calendar, and it ends a second time in law, on a…

Reflections from thirty-one years at the Bar  I have lost count of the number of files that have sat on my table for a decade or more, growing thicker with every hearing, each one a marriage that ended years ago…