This week, my choice of the book for the blog is India Revisited: conversations on contemporary India (OUP, 2008)written by Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian scholar who suffered imprisonment in his...
Rarely, Members of Parliament are evaluated for their work as Members of Parliament. This is not surprising, as MPs, first and foremost, are party men and women, and their role and contribution to...
The following are links to some important articles on subjects which are of interest to us and on which some of us may be interested in sharing our reflections. (I have relaxed the standards of...
This edit in the latest EPW complements Tamil Nadu for being the first State to recognise the rights of the transgender, treating it as a third category. A recent order by the Education Department of...
H.M.Seervai: Doyen of Indian Constitutional Law – An Australian Appreciation by Justice Michael Kirby (Universal Law Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2008), is a fitting tribute to Seervai. This book...
The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have been agitating for justice for several days in New Delhi after walking all the way from Bhopal to press their demands. Some of them are in jail, for...
Corruption in the implementation of the NREGA has been talked about time and again. At the same time, it has been observed by some writers that instances of corruption alone cannot be the ground to...
In an interesting article, titled Arms and Men, Soli J.Sorabjee drew our attention to a judgment by a Division Bench of the High Court in the U.K. stopping executive leniency as reflected in its...
To have our own version of This Day That Age, I searched June 16, 2000 (that is the earliest year available with The Hindu online edition) to read the opinion piece it carried on that day. What I...
The following statement has been released by a group of academics and activists to condemn the harassment of political psychologist, Ashis Nandy, for his article and to demand the withdrawal of...