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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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 he...
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...
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...