The Supreme Court’s interim judgment in the Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India and Ors. granting a stay on the OBC reservations in Central Educational Institutions requires a careful study and I...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court appears to have issued an order staying the UPA government’s initiative to impose new quotas for OBCs. Here are reports of the stay order and the Court’s...
In the comments section of the previous post, Vivek Reddy has this to say while discussing the Coelho case: “One interesting thing about the Ninth Schedule judgment is that it was a unanimous...
Recent issues of the Economic and Political Weekly contain several interesting articles that are either directly or incidentally related to the law. I am not sure when EPW moved to this new format...
In my earlier post on corruption debate-I, I emphasized the dire need to replace the first-past-the-post system with the PR. I am glad that HT editor, Vir Sanghvi has endorsed my suggestion in his...
Today’s Indian Express carries a column by a member of the Delhi Commission for Women, Ranjana Kaul, who provides an analysis of recent Supreme Court rulings focusing on IPC provisions relating...
A recent post by V. Venkatesan highlights stark contradictions in the Indian Supreme Court’s overall record on human rights issues relating to terrorism. In particular, the description of the...
Yesterday’s Indian Express carried a short letter from a former Chief Justice of India, Justice R.C. Lahoti. I for one am intrigued by his motivation in writing the letter, though its contents...
A recent article in The Hindu dealt with evolution of human rights jurisprudence in India, and praised the Supreme Court for its seminal contribution to it. However, a recent case when the Supreme...
An interesting piece on the blogs by Nicholas Carr, which first appeared in Guardian and reproduced in The Hindu, captures the essence of our blog too, defines its personality to some extent. But...