- “Death as Deterrent,” The Hindu, Sunday edition, 28 November 1999.
- “Of Lawyers and the Law,” The Hindu, Sunday edition, July 2000.
- “Family Fortunes” The Hindu, 14 May 2001
- “Caste, the Academy and Dalit Women,” The Hindu, edit page, 20 June, 2001.
- “Empowering Women,” The Hindu, Sunday edition, 26 August, 2001.
- “The Right to Life,” The Hindu, Sunday edition, 21 October, 2001.
- “Adivasis and the Genocide,” The Hindu, edit page, 24 April, 2002
- “Education, Campuses and Violence,” The Hindu, edit page, 29 October 2002.
- “On Human Rights and Radical Evil,” The Hindu, edit page, 30 December 2002
- “Reservation and the Creamy Layer”, The Hindu, edit page, 24 October 2006.
- “Roadmap to Reservation in Higher Education” The Hindu, edit page, 18 April 2008.
- “From ‘Perversion’ to Right to Life with Dignity” The Hindu, edit page, 6 July 2009.
- “Rethinking the Law on Sexual Assault,” The Hindu, edit page, 3 June 2010.
- “Fair Labour Standards for Domestic Work”, The New Indian Express, 3 February 2011.
- “Creating Enabling Environments”, The Hindu, edit page, 24 June 2011.
- “Development, Justice and the Constitution, The Hindu, op-ed, 27 July 2011.
- “Whither Dignity and the Rule of Law?” The New Indian Express, 01 January 2012.
- “Regulating Cultures through Food Policing”, The Hindu, edit page, 01 May 2012.
- “Girl Punk, Interrupted”, The Hindu, Op-Ed, 24 August 2012.
- “A Moment of Triumph for Women”, The Hindu, Edit Page, 25 January 2013.
- “UPA Strays off Sonia’s Course”, The Hindu, Op-Ed, 10 February 2013.
- “Talks not a Maoist Trap”, The Hindu, Op-Ed, 4 July 2013.
- “Atrocities that no longer shock”, The Hindu, October 15, 2013.
- “Lawyer, Judge and Aam Aadmi,” The Hindu, Op-Ed, 18 January 2014.
- “Tsundur Verdict Points to Impunity of Upper Castes”, The New Indian Express, 24 April 2014.
- “Rights of Prisoners with Disabilities” The Hindu, Op-Ed, 20 May 2014.
- Two Girls from Badaun,” Op-Ed, The Deccan Chronicle and The Asian Age, 01 June 2014.
- “Involving People in Governance”, Op-Ed, The Hindu, 12 August 2014.
- “The Burden of Criminal Neglect” The Hindu, Op-Ed January 2015.
- “Something is Rotten in the States of…,” The Hindu, Op-Ed, 13 April, 2015.
- “Free Speech is the Cornerstone of Constitution,” The New Indian Express, 22 July 2015.
- “Constitutional Conversations on Adivasi Rights,” The Hindu, Op-Ed, 24 July 2015.
- “No Constitutional Ground for Denial of Right to Privacy,” The New Indian Express, Edit Page, 24 July 2015.
- “An Apology to Mohammed Akhlaq,” Op-Ed, The New Indian Express, 16 October 2015.
- “Hyderabad and Amaravati: The Tale of Two Cities,” Op-Ed, The New Indian Express, 28 October 2015.
- “Bihar Voters Speak Truth to Power,” Op-Ed, The New Indian Express, 25 November 2015.
- “Disability is not Divinity”, Op-Ed, The Hindu, 12 January 2016.
- “The Annihilation By Caste,” Op-Ed, The Hindu, 03 February 2016.
- “What is a University?”, Op-Ed, The Hindu, 16 February, 2016.
- “Judges and Citizens in a Constitutional Democracy,” Op-Ed, Hindustan Times, 11 March 2016.
- Interview: All Crimes are Crimes against the State: Kalpana Kannabiran, LIVE MINT, 20 JUNE 2014 (National: women’s issues and the efficacy of the legal framework in addressing them).
- “Post Truths about Rohith Vemula,” The Hindu, 17 January 2017.
- “Champion of Reason,” The Indian Express, 5 August 2017.
- ‘It’s Time to Scrap the Eunuchs Act,’ The Hindu, Op-Ed, 28 September 2017
- ‘Taking Aim at the Messenger: on the attack on Kancha Ilaiah,’ Op-Ed, The Hindu, 5 October 2017.
- Kancha Ilaiah: For Lives Lived in Labour,” The Hindu, 28 October 2017.
- Right to privacy as right to life
- Privacy, Sequestered Courts and the Place of Dissent. The Wire, 16 January 2018.
- Denying Women Entry to the Sabarimala Temple Amounts to Untouchability, The Wire, 19 July 2018
- “An Assault on the Right to Privacy,” The Hindu, 6 September 2018.
- “They Cannot Stop me from Teaching Marx and Ambedkar: Prof. K. Satyanarayana”, The Hindu, 9 September 2018.
- “Scope of Constitutional Morality,” The Hindu, 3 October 2018.
- “A Devotee’s Gender or Caste Should Not Stop their Entry into Sabarimala” Hindustan Times, 16 October 2018.
- “SC/ST Act: A Hostile Environment and an ‘Atrocious’ Interpretation”. The Wire, 26 March 2018.
- “#WeToo: In the Footprints of Bhanwari Devi” In Outlook, 31 October 2018.
- “Supreme Court’s Refusal to Quash FIR against Anand Teltumbde damages the Right to Dissent.” Scroll.in, 25 January 2019.
- “Without Land or Recourse”, The Hindu, 23 February 2019.
- “The Court is not above the Constitution,” The Hindu, 23 April 2019.
- “Redeeming the Constitution”, The Leaflet, 10 May 2019.
- “Through the clouds of protest, sightings of hope,” Scroll.in, 22 January 2020.
- “Retrieving the Idea of Citizenship,” The Hindu, 28 January 2020.
- “To accuse activist Harsh Mander of hate speech is to fall prey to the barbarity of false equivalence,” Scroll.in, 17 March 2020.
- “The fight to free pregnant student activist Safoora Zargar is a battle for India’s very soul,” Scroll.in, June 11, 2020.
- “Judicial Viralities, Courts and the Question of Justice.” The Leaflet, 14 August 2020.
- “Right to Personal Liberty : Challenge Before Constitutional Courts” Livelaw, 9th January 2021.
- “State Repression that Breaches Public Peace,” The Hindu, 30 April 2021.
