The Maharashtra Government’s SLP against the Bombay High Court’s order lifting the ban on James Laine’s book ‘Shivaji: Hindu King of Islamic India’ came up for hearing before Justices Arijit Pasayat...
After repeatedly losing their legal battle for justice and fair compensation, the survivors of 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster have rediscovered the power of padayatra, successfully used by Mahatma Gandhi...
The Consultation organized by the Human Rights Law Network for two days at the Nehru Memorial Museum, New Delhi on February 23 and 24 was a rich learning experience about the current judicial trends...
Today, Manoj Mitta has referred in the Times of India to the activist, Teesta Setalvad’s article in the Malayalam magazine, Mathrubhoomi, which led to the Chief Justice’s outburst in the...
The similarities are too glaring to be missed. In 1977, Indira Gandhi lifted the Emergency, and announced general elections to the surprise of the entire world. What made her announce elections then...
The editorial in the latest EPW says there are three serious issues thrown by Raj Thackeray’s movement against North Indian outsiders. One is the presence of a large army of unemployed youth in...
There have been more comments in today’s newspapers on the issue of migrants v. natives which require a reasoned response. N.K.Singh says in Indian Express: “the concerns raised by MNS are no...
The spate of comments in the media describing the protests of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena against North Indians in Mumbai as unconstitutional made me wonder whether the authors of these comments are...
This post is not about the merits or otherwise of MNS/Raj’s violent protest against migrants to Mumbai from U.P. and Bihar. Instead, it looks at the conclusions drawn from the similar nativist...
The following letter written by S.Pushparaman, Tiruchirapalli appeared in the Times of India, January 28, 1973. There is much talk these days about the “Sons of the Soil”. The advocates and opponents...