The emergence of Hillary Clinton as one of the two potential Democratic Party nominees for President has kindled interest about women in leadership positions in the US. This is of course nothing new...
EPW has an article on the ongoing forest case (T.N.Godavarman v. Union of India) and its implications. It traces how the SC, taking recourse to ‘continuing’ mandamus, has assumed complete...
In light of the ongoing illegal kidney trade scandal, CNN-IBNLive had a debate on the question of organ trade. Some interesting points were made by the anchor in support of legalizing it including...
Arundhati Roy has a new article published in Outlook (it says it is an excerpt of her lecture). This one is not only longer than her previous write-up ‘Scandal in the Palace’ (which was debated on...
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...
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...
Mr. Venkatesan put forth several interesting questions in response to a previous post on commercial surrogacy (see comment). There is a vast body of literature on surrogacy with a variety of views...
There is an interesting blog on commercial surrogacy in India in the NYT by Judith Warner. It is best to read the whole piece but here some excerpts: “…the money [Indian surrogate mothers] were...
B.Raman has a column on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Outlook wherein he names the suspects: “Two versions have been circulating. Both attribute her assassination to Al Qaeda, but claim that...
Jason Burke, blogging in the Guardian, speculates that it may be a combination of many factors:“Finally, it is worth looking back at a previous attempt on Bhutto’s life – not that of...