Yesterday, at an election rally in New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati accused the Congress party of mistreating Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and ensuring his defeat in the first general elections...
I thought I would share this brilliantly written piece by Martha Nussbaum with readers of this blog. Published in the somewhat obscure (at least for me), Boston Review, it tells the story of Jamia...
This is a certainly thought-provoking, although not completely novel, presentation by Yogendra Yadav in Mysore. It is a reprise of a talk he gave previously on the same subject, and was covered on...
Here is a guest post by Gopal Sankaranarayanan, an advocate practising in the Supreme Court of India, which responds to Venkatesan’s post on the Srikrishna report. I’m also posting below...
As I wrote earlier, the Chennai developments are a great cause for concern. If there is one silver lining in all the distressing news of the last few weeks, it is that Justice B.N. Srikrishna, a...
Two weeks ago, I wrote on these pages about Vasantha Pai, a lawyer, legislator, and freedom fighter in Chennai. All that he stood for, practised, and preached, was repudiated in and outside the...
The last surviving member of our Constituent Assembly, Ranbir Singh Hooda, died on February 1. I’m unclear whether Hooda made any significant contributions to the Constituent Assembly’s...
On our 59th Republic Day, I thought I’d reflect, in my private capacity, on a disturbing trend concerning our country’s refusal to participate or to curb its commitment to key...
I don’t usually dabble in jurisprudence for, unlike our other blogger-scholars, I’m just a word-smith like most ordinary lawyers. Yet, I find it increasingly hard to resist legal theory...
The Hindu published this rambling opinion piece by Justice Katju on the need for tolerance in India. While I appreciated the underlying theme of the piece and Justice Katju’s earnest call for...