It strikes me that opinion columns in Indian newspapers have greatly improved in their style, analysis, and content. Previously, opinion writing was dominated by retired bureaucrats who bloviated...
This morning’s Hindu published a somewhat belated review of Rajeev Dhavan’s controversial book, Reserved, by N.R. Madhava Menon. If you follow this blog regularly, you may recall our own...
I learnt today that Justice H.R. Khanna passed away earlier this week. Justice Khanna was one of the greatest judges in our Supreme Court’s history, and I mourn his passing. He played an...
Tarunabh’s recent post, below, makes for very interesting reading especially, on Republic Day. I very much appreciated his analysis. I was not aware that the Andhra Pradesh High Court has held...
I am very pleased to introduce Nick Robinson as our newest member of Law and Other Things. Nick works at the Human Rights Law Network in New Delhi, where he focuses on issues of water governance and...
My friend, Kersi Shroff, of the Law Library of the US Congress wrote this interesting note on the suspension and reinstatement of Pakistan’s Chief Justice. I like the note for its cogent...
I am responding to Venkatesan’s criticism of Dilip’s and my posts on Arundhati Roy’s recent article on judicial activism and the Sabharwal controversy. As a threshold matter, I...
I’m at a workshop on South Asian legal studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. One of the speakers here cited this article, “Scandal in the Palace” in Outlook by...
This Supreme Court order to avoid unnecessary summons to government officials a timely and important one. Ever since the Vasudevan episode of the mid-1990s, state and central government officials...
As a follow-up to Venkatesan’s “live blogging” from the Supreme Court, my friend, Gopal Sankaranarayan, has been kind to send me an outline of the arguments by KK Venugopal and FS...