Deepak Disagrees

1. Episode · Sep 13, 2026

   Ep 22: Street vendors are not encroachers! | Prashant Narang on public spaces, property rights, and who decides (opens the original)

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   Prashant Narang believes that street vendors are not encroachers. He argues that the state has wrongly cast honest vendors as illegal, and that a vendor who sells on a footpath is simply free enterprise at work. He goes further still: a vendor who has held the same spot for years has earned a real claim to it, and the state should protect that claim rather than evict them. But is vending a legitimate use of public land? Should we reward encroachers with property rights? And how do we decide how

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2. Episode · Aug 12, 2026

   Ep 21: Do we care about poverty? | Usha Ramanathan on the law, the state, and people in poverty (opens the original)

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   Usha Ramanathan believes that we have failed people in poverty. The state has systematically constructed them as illegal: encroachers, beggars, vagrants and defaulters, and we, the citizens, have looked away. But should we trade liberty for the sake of the poor? Haven't liberalized markets lifted more Indians out of poverty than any welfare program ever has? And if the state is the enemy, then how can we also enlist it to protect the poor? Usha is one of India's most respected legal scholars. Sh

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