While we are discussing corruption in India, it may be interesting to look at the recent decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in Glenister v President of the Republic of SA [2011]...
The debate on how we make laws has intensified in light of the disagreements on the Jan Lokpal Bill. Shamnad made an important point earlier on this blog that there is a democratic deficit in the law...
A remarkable opinion published in the Organiser, mouthpiece of the RSS, has vigorously opposed censorship generally, and the ban on Joseph Lelyveld’s book on Gandhi in particular. It is not...
Readers may be interested in two excellent pieces analysing the recent ‘awakening’ against corruption in India: Shuddhabrata Sengupta writing in Kafila and Mihir Sharma in the Indian...
It is my pleasure to publish yet another guest post from the folks at the Pre-Legislative Briefing Service...
The South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre has joined issue with the Supreme Court in this recent EPW article. The comment is regarding the Supreme Court’s anger at Teesta Setalvad...
Inspired by the recent ad-campaign by the British Humanist Association calling upon people without religion to say so in their census data, I had a look at the Indian census form. While question 3 on...
I have recently had the chance to collect some thoughts on activism by the Supreme Court in this recent article in the Times of India. In this article, I argue that there are three key areas in which...
The Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP), a group of law postgraduate students and Faculty members dedicated to the practice of public interest law on a pro bono basis, has submitted this report to the...
Two recent, and rare, Op-Eds celebrating rather than berating our politicians (Shekhar Gupta) and our constitutional institutions (Jaithirth Rao) make interesting reading. In this context, readers...