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
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
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 …
Continue readingThe NUJS Law Review: another step towards reviving strong legal scholarship in India
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 …
Continue readingToo Much Legalization in the World?
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 …
Continue readingSoli Sorabjee on the EC order on Varun
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 …
Continue readingRagging and Judicial Activism
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 …
Continue readingWhy Mohd.Afzal deserves mercy
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 …
Continue readingEC’s Order on Varun Gandhi: Advice or direction?
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 …
Continue readingJamia Millia and Islamic Liberalism in India
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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