The former Chief Election Commissioner, T.S.Krishna Murthy once succinctly summed up the crisis of Indian democracy in terms of two Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs): money power and muscle power...
Media analyses of the historic change taking place in Nepal have focused attention on the fall of the kingdom, the rise of the Republic, and the lessons for India from the Maoists’ success in joining...
Ashish Kothari of Kalpavriksh has written an interesting article in Tehelka exposing the Supreme Court’s double standards in the cases of Niyamgiri and Ramar Setu. The author begins with this...
In a hard-hitting article in Tehelka, the counsel for Shoukat Hussain Guru, Shanti Bhushan has attacked the two Judge Bench which delivered the judgment in the Shoukat case as not worthy of being...
In his interview to CNN-IBN, the Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil shared an important piece of information relating to how President exercises his power under Article 72(1), to grant pardons, and...
It has been the general perception that the Supreme Court has been mostly supportive of the State’s liberalization agenda since the 1990s. This judgment by Justices Sinha and Sirpurkar in the case of...
Rajeev Dhavan’s article in Mail Today on the Delhi High Court’s recent judgment in the M.F.Husain case deserves a close read. His article is useful to get an understanding of the legal...
The PUDR has brought out its report on Narco Analysis, carrying in full Dr.Ramanatham Memorial Lecture, delivered last year in New Delhi by Dr.Amar Jesani. The report and the lecture can be accessed...
In the Mandal II judgment, Justice Raveendran raised an interesting issue, but left it unanswered. It was whether the OBC candidates, if selected under the merit list, should be counted against OBC...
The California Supreme Court’s decision legalising same sex marriages has been hailed as a landmark decision. The purpose of referring to this decision is to post a curtain-raiser to an...