Guest Blogger: Harish Damodaran Harish Damodaran is a journalist who has worked for more than 16 years as a reporter and editorial analyst with the Press Trust of India and The Hindu Business Line...
As a relative new-comer to the Indian legal system, I would be curious to get people’s thoughts on the Supreme Court’s filing rules (or lack of them). There are a lot of directions this conversation...
The Supreme Court’s reversal of its own order refusing to vacate the stay on the holding of the traditional village sport in Tamil Nadu, Jallikattu has caused quite a consternation. (Animal...
Is the Supreme court finally willing to look at the substance of a relationship, beyond the satisfaction of formal requirements? In a judgment delivered yesterday, the Court seems to have held that a...
Today’s Hindu carried a news item about a SC decision delivered by a three-judge bench on the need for a patient’s informed consent before the doctor embarks on a surgical procedure. The report...
Is anyone aware of any searchable online database of Indian law journals? I searched for the websites of Journal of Indian Law Institute and Indian Bar Review (well, the former had more like a...
I am very pleased to introduce Nick Robinson as our newest member of Law and Other Things. Nick works at the Human Rights Law Network in New Delhi, where he focuses on issues of water governance and...
I’ve been helping here in Delhi to put on America’s first online global primary in which Democrats abroad will vote in a block, like their own state (Americans will be able to vote online in...
I am glad to introduce Anumita Roychowdhury, Associate Director,Research and Advocacy,Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, who has done a useful study on the impact of low-cost small cars...
There is a freely available article by Raghav Sharma from National Law University, Jodhpur written quite recently (July, 2007) on the question of surrogacy with particular reference to India. Apart...