The DPDP framework marks India’s move to a more regulated data environment.  DPDP is not a replacement for the already existing sectoral rules. It involves various kinds of rules, regulations to work together simultaneously.

A more inclusive direction for the DPDP framework should strike a better balance between restoring agency and keeping practical safeguards. It should require objective, case-by-case capacity assessments for all types of disability before resorting to a guardian to give consent.

This article suggests a hierarchical framework for debt classification under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC) wherein company law constraints function as threshold gatekeepers that determine whether a legally enforceable debt can arise at all, while substance-over-from analysis is put to a secondary role assessing the character of obligations that have already crystallised in law.