Frontline has covered the verdict convicting & sentencing the 8 accused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster case comprehensively. Apart from my articles and interview with Himanshu Rajan Sharma, readers...
*Bringing clarity on reservations: Why I think the recent judgments in the cases of Union of India v. Ramesh Ram and Dr.Krishnamurthy v. Union of India bring clarity to the affirmative action debate...
The ongoing case of State of Uttaranchal v. Balwant Singh Chaufal came up for hearing before the Supreme Court Bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra on May 3. The...
*Justice or revenge? Bikramjeet Batra’s article on Kasab’s sentence and the implications. *Moment of Truth: My article on the Supreme Court’s judgment banning forced Narco tests...
One of our regular readers, Vinod George Joseph, has written a persuasive piece on his blog on why Kasab should be kept alive. I agree with him fully. I have not read the trial court’s judgment...
An update on the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Jessica Lal case: The media missed the Supreme Court’s indictment of High Court, even while upholding High Court’s verdict. Supreme...
A good story on the Solicitor-General, Gopal Subramanium’s U.S. visit on the Headley trail. The interesting question is whether the SG violated Section 8 (1)(e) of the Law Officers [Conditions...
The Women’s Reservation Bill and the controversy surrounding it have invited many comments and counter-proposals. Some observers, for instance, have supported the proposal for amending the R.P...
The latest Frontline carries the cover story on the Dantewada massacre, analysing what has gone wrong with the Government’s strategy. My article, Reluctant Reform, sums up the findings of the...
My last post reproducing K.V.Dhananjay’s view that the SLPs in the Naz Foundation case do not survive after the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Laloo Prasad case has led to an interesting...