Publications

An article titled “Emerging Architecture of Accountability for AI in India’s Financial Sector: Examining RBI’s Draft Guidance on Model Risk Management” co-authored by Senior Partner, Vaibhav Kakkar, and Principal Associate, Gangesh Varma has been published by BW Legal. Whether a bank uses a cutting-edge neural network or a twenty-year-old Excel spreadsheet to reject your loan, […]

An article titled “From Freefall to Framework: The RBI’s Bold Bet on Reviving PPIs” co-authored by Partner, Sahil Arora, and Associate, Ishaan Gupta has been published by Bar and Bench. Not long ago, industry payments data painted a grim picture – the prepaid payment instrument (PPI) industry was in freefall, with mobile wallets haemorrhaging users,

An article titled “The Consent Manager Mirage: Why DPDPA’s Framework Will Fail on the Ground” authored by our Partner, Akshayy S Nanda, has been published by BW Legal. When Parliament created the ‘Consent Manager’ framework under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA), it was aiming for an elegant, citizen‑centric solution. The idea was

An article titled “MeitY’s Deepfake Clampdown: short, sharp and suddenly real” co-authored by our Principal Associate, Gangesh Varma, and Associate, Srija Naskar, has been published by Voice&Data. On February 10, 2026, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) gave legal form to a policy conversation that’s been gaining urgency for more than a year: deepfakes and

An article titled “Disclosures to discoverability: The evolution of ‘Country of Origin’ filter in Indian e-comm” co-authored by our Principal Associate, Gangesh Varma, and Associate, Srija Naskar, has been published by Governance Now. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs’ recent notification tightening rules for online retail by mandating searchable, sortable “country of origin” filters for packaged

An article titled “Lifting the Fog: India liberalizes FDI framework for Land Border Countries” co-authored by our Senior Partner, Vaibhav Kakkar, and Partner, Keshav Pareek, has been published by Bar and Bench. The Union Cabinet recently approved significant amendments to the guidelines governing foreign direct investment from countries sharing a land border with India. Announced

An article titled “India’s AI Moment is Real: Seize It or Lose It” co-authored by our Partner, Sahil Arora, and Associate, Ishaan Gupta, has been published by Financial Express (India). Set aside the news cycle chatter about traffic woes and robotic dog controversies. By any measure, the recent Impact AI Summit was a resounding success. India pulled

An article titled “The hidden accountability: Why data processors must take DPDPA seriously” authored by our Partner, Akshayy S Nanda, has been published by The Times Of India. The Hidden Accountability: Why Data Processors Must Take DPDPA Seriously. While the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA) places primary liability on Data Fiduciaries rather than Data Processors, a casual