Srinath Raghavan, a leading historian, has just published his next book ‘1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh’ by Harvard University Press / Permanent Black. The book...
DAKSH, the Bangalore based accountability group that I work with, has announced a Legislation Drafting Challenge for college students. The competition is open to students across all disciplines. The...
Today’s news brought headlines of the largest ever medical negligence judgement in India: 6.08 Rs Crore awarded by the Supreme Court to a U.S. doctor whose child psychologist wife died during a...
Columbia Law School is holding a one-day event on Saturday, October 26, 2013 to mark the 100th anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar’s arrival in the US to pursue graduate studies at Columbia...
The Supreme Court’s NOTA judgment continues to fascinate observers. While the judgment is hailed by several eminent people from the civil society, it requires a serious study to unravel...
I had this op-ed in Mint today on Qui Tam Enforcement. Basically under qui tam enforcement a private citizen can sue on behalf of the state to recoup ill-gotten gains from corruption. If she wins...
A man was arrested in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, by the police merely because his act of taking tea at a pubic place created suspicion that he was likely to indulge in some unlawful act. The...