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The Outlook magazine must be commended for doing a cover story on racism at home, even as Indians cannot stop protesting against the racism they face elsewhere. It follows this recent report in the...
Press reports tell us that security forces are ‘set to take control’ of Lalgarh in a few hours. It seems that the various groups involved in the conflict include ‘Maoists’...
The Government appears set to legislate on the Equal Opportunity Commission. The President’s address to the Lok Sabha promised to ‘set up an Equal Opportunity Commission’. The...
Recent events of violence in Punjab after the assasination of a Sikh guru in Vienna fall squarely within the type of cases that the Supreme Court intended to cover while delivering its judgment in In...
This editorial in the Telegraph laments the fact that the formation of the council of ministers took twelve days: This inordinate delay in forming a team that is supposed to present to the nation an...
The CBI is about to begin arguments before the Allahabad High Court in the Taj Heritage Corridor case. The agency has to justify its decision not to prosecute Chief Minister Mayawati. It appears to...
Update: I have been asked why the case is a landmark. I realise now that in my excitement, I failed to highlight the implications of the case properly. There is hardly any DP case where seperate...
Talha Abdul Rahman, a recent graduate of Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, currently pursuing post graduate studies (BCL) at the University of Oxford as a Shell Centenary Chevening Scholar...
Several readers have enquired about the draft Prevention of Torture Bill 2008, mentioned in my article on impunity provisions. This blog discussed the possibility of bipartisan consensus on outlawing...