Since my previous post highlighting the role that the principle of subsidiarity can play in devolving power, there have been three excellent columns in the Indian Express dealing with precisely the...
1. On love jihad – A Kerala judge has sought to legitimise the use of a dangerous concept – ‘Love Jihad’. Liberals should be worried, for this is a clever reactionary assault...
This article makes a case for humanities education in our times when governments only see the instrumental value of education. Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s column on proposed reforms in the Delhi...
The latest issue of the EPW includes four articles on gender justice that may be of interest to readers: 1. Flavia Agnes on property, conjugality and maintenance; 2. Indira Jaisingh on the Domestic...
Two recent pieces on access to healthcare may interest our readers: (i) this Outlook story shows how the meager healthcare resources at AIIMS that are currently accessible by the poor may not...
Socio-Legal Review welcomes contributions for its sixth volume to be released in 2010. About the Journal The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal...
I am not a scientist, and this is not a science blog. But the just-published study in Nature may have interesting implications for some important legal and political debates around caste. India, the...
We are ‘blessed’ with one of the longest constitutions in the world. There is too much by way of detail, stuff that could easily have been part of ordinary statutes. No surprise, then...
Readers responding to this previous post wanted to know the methodology employed by the PRS in their study. The following is their response: The estimate for time required to clear cases is computed...
Pratiksha Baxi’s thought-provoking comment on my earlier post ‘New Law on Honour Killing?‘ deserves notice, hence I am posting it separately here. As she outlines, any legislative...