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Month: March 2009

Sanjay Dutt and Navjot Singh Sidhu: Flaws in Supreme Court’s reasoning

On March 31, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

Supreme Court’s judgment in Sanjay Dutt’s case, denying his plea for suspension of his conviction under the Arms Act is based on the subtle distinction which the Court tried to make between his case and …

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Shame of a Name and The Great House Hunt

On March 30, 2009 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

This blog has discussed the issue of housing discrimination several times in previous posts (I, II, III and IV), so it may not be very interesting to go through the legal arguments once again (for …

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Mystery novel by young lawyer

On March 29, 2009 By Namita Wahi In Uncategorized

A NICE QUIET HOLIDAY by Aditya Sudarshan, Westland, Rs.250. Aditya Sudarshan, a graduate of National Law School, Bangalore has recently published his debut mystery novel “A Nice Quiet Holiday”. The book has opened to favourable …

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The NUJS Law Review: another step towards reviving strong legal scholarship in India

On March 29, 2009 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

The new National Law Schools have often – and justifiably – been criticized for their failure to develop a strong scholarly and research tradition and a corresponding body of scholarship on Indian law. The reasons …

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Too Much Legalization in the World?

On March 28, 2009 By Madhav Khosla In Uncategorized

In a wonderful article (“Shall We Get Rid of the Lawyers?”) in the current issue of the New York Review of Books, Anthony Lewis reviews a new book Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too …

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Soli Sorabjee on the EC order on Varun

On March 27, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

I draw the readers’ attention to Soli Sorabjee’s article in Indian Express on the E.C.’s order (Who’ll silence Varun?). My comments on it are as follows: 1. Sorabjee says: Before elections are announced, by the …

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Ragging and Judicial Activism

On March 24, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

How effective has been Supreme Court’s intervention to curb ragging in higher educational institutions? Well, we don’t have final answers yet. Still, I search for some tentative answers by looking at the degree of compliance …

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Why Mohd.Afzal deserves mercy

On March 24, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

Even as the BJP seeks to make the non-hanging of Mohd.Afzal, the lone convict in the Parliament attack case facing death penalty, as a major campaign issue, the facts in the MHA files show that …

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EC’s Order on Varun Gandhi: Advice or direction?

On March 23, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

While watching various channels debate the E.C.’s order on Varun Gandhi’s hate speech, I could see that the participants completely missed the real issue. The core issue is not whether Varun is innocent till proved …

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Jamia Millia and Islamic Liberalism in India

On March 23, 2009 By Vikram Raghavan In Uncategorized

I thought I would share this brilliantly written piece by Martha Nussbaum with readers of this blog. Published in the somewhat obscure (at least for me), Boston Review, it tells the story of Jamia Millia …

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