Even as Parliament remains the focus of discussion today because of trust (thrust?) vote, a momentous judgment from the Supreme Court on death penalty should be taken note of. This pertains to the...
In a stinging critique, Upendra Baxi has compared Justice C.K.Thakker’s judgment in the Manu Sharma case to the A.D.M.Jabalpur judgment of the Supreme Court during the Emergency,and has called...
The Maharashtra Govt’s SLP against the Bombay High Court’s lifting of the ban on the book Shivaji, written by James Laine came up for hearing before Justices Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam...
A new blog, Scholars without borders has been online for quite some time, and doing great service to those academically inclined. Those who have not heard it earlier, may visit it now.
DIVIDED WE STAND: INDIA IN A TIME OF COALITIONS by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta & Shankar Raghuraman, Sage, 2007. As the UPA Government at the Centre struggles to survive in power, with the vote of...
As the Supreme Court is all set to take up the regular cases from July 15, the list of Specially Directed and Adjourned Matters for the period from July 2008 onwards (the terminal list)has been put...
In a persuasive article in EPW (the access to this link may be denied to non-subscribers later), Ramachandra Guha identifies the obstacles to the writing of contemporary history, and outlines how...
I am posting here the gist of 28th JP Memorial Lecture delivered on 23 March 2008 at Gandhi Peace Foundation, Delhi, by Professor Yogendra Yadav of CSDS. I read the text of this lecture in The...
In today’s Hindu, Tarunabh and I have underlined the three major infirmities in the Rajasthan Government’s compromise with the Gujjars who ended their agitation recently. The larger...
HINDU NATIONALISM AND GOVERNANCE Edited by John McGuire& Ian Copland,OUP, 2007, Rs.695, pp.476. This book is a significant contribution to the study of BJP in power. With the BJP making a...