Two recent decisions, one from the Andhra Pradesh High Court and the other from the Supreme Court, might well radically alter the dynamic between the courts and the State in the context of...
The European Court of Human Rights in Scoppola v. Italy (22 May 2012) has diluted the right to vote for prisoners that it upheld in Hirst v. The United Kingdom in October 2005. In this...
‘A Brahmin Prime Minister whipping a Dalit leader and blaming him for the delay in creating the Constitution’ — that spin on Shankar’s cartoon is too dangerous for any...
Report on the Q&A Session with a Delegation of Indian MPs at Oxford (16th April 2012) (co-authored with Dhvani Mehta) Apparently when Devi Lal, the ‘tau’ of Indian politics, was asked why he had...
In the Society for Un-Aided Private Schools of Rajasthan v. Union of India, the Supreme Court has by a majority of 2-1 upheld the constitutionality of The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory...
The recent Presidential assent for the 2010 Madhya Pradesh Govansh Vadh Pratishedh (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam (notified on 31 December 2011 in the M.P Extraordinary Gazette No. 594 and hereinafter...
The recent decision by a two judge bench of the Supreme Court (Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai) in Rameshbhai Dabhai Naika v. State of Gujarat has clarified that a person born out of an inter...