Although it hasn’t seemed to have caught much attention in India, the central news story in Pakistan the last few days is that a 14-judge bench of their Supreme Court is hearing a case that now...
There is much discussion surrounding the yet to be revealed Right to Food Act. Pragya Singh of Outlook India is not alone in her assessment that the Act “is being crafted as the centrepiece of...
This article in today’s LA Times discusses the potential threat of stem rust on wheat, the world’s most widely grown crop. Painting scary stories like this article does – it claims...
This piece in today’s Wall Street Journal highlights the pressing problem of newspapers (mostly Hindi, Urdu, and Gujarati) selling positive or “not negative” coverage to candidates...
In this recent piece in the Indian Express I argue that India needs more strong and independent prosecutors to help address the continuing governance gap. I wrote the piece for a couple reasons...
The Group of International Lawyers Delhi (GUILD) was recently created under the auspices of the Centre for Policy Research. For those interested it currently meets once a month to discuss timely...
This op-ed by Sudhir Krishnaswamy (now a professor at NUJS) appeared in the Indian Express this weekend discussing the recent student strike at HNLU – a topic of a recent post on this blog. The...
Since many of our readers are Indians living abroad I thought there would be interest in Abhinav Chandrachud’s op-ed in today’s Hindu, “Overseas Citizens: A Horse with No...
“But if everything depends on the pleasure of the prosecutor, who can enforce the law or not, then what is the use of the courts?” – Nekhludoff in Tolstoy’s The AwakeningThis...
Simon Johnson’s NY Times column on Friday claimed that during the recent G-20 meeting a deal was struck by the United States with the Europeans that the next IMF chief would not come from...