The Madhav Menon Committee Report on the establishment of an Equal Opportunity Commission submitted recently to the government recommends outlawing discrimination against ‘deprived...
We have seen several drafts of the right to education Bill, none of them entirely satisfactory. One of the sticking points was allocating the costs between the Centre and the State governments. It...
In Ashoka Kumar Thakur v. Union of India (Mandal II case), the SC has refused to test the impugned law through strict scrutiny. However, it seems that this refusal is restricted only to affirmative...
Two quick updates on my last post on housing discrimination against Muslims and religious discrimination in general. 1. Private Discrimination: Ravi’s comment on my last post said that “I...
The recent case of a majority-Jain housing society in Mumbai denying the only Muslim family living there power and water is not the only one of its kind. Since the Mumbai bomb-blasts in 1993, Muslims...
I am reporting former Solicitor General, Harish Salve’s talk at Exeter College, University of Oxford on 12th March 2008. It was a fascinating intervention on the debate on the...
Two interesting developments, both initiated by the Chairs of the two Houses of Parliament, are worth noting. First concerns the an issue referred to the Committee of Privileges by the Vice-President...
The Supreme Court has dismissed an application by painter MF Hussain ‘for immunity from prosecution in any court in the country except in Delhi’. Multiple proceedings against Shilpa...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post on the sorry state of digital archives of legal scholarship in India. Since then, I have had many responses on archives and searches that do exist at the moment...
So, Taslima Nasreen’s visa has been generously extended for six more months. I will try to present certain legal issues that her stay in India present. Although one can go further back in...