I strongly recommend to this blog The Indian Express’s Republic day special issue on the twenty court cases that have expanded the idea of India. Spread across six full pages, the special issue...
As the year ends and outlandish predictions for the coming decade begin (the big fashion event… the next big tech gizmo…), here’s one this blog might be interested in: what will the...
This blog has closely followed the journey of Justice Dinakaran from probable elevation to possible impeachment.Regardless of his guilt or innocence, how fair has the system been to him ? In...
The Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill, in cold-storage in Parliament since 2005, was referred to in the Centre’s Action Taken Report on the Liberhan...
Indian Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar’s recent letter to the PMO listing seven instances in which US companies (including a subsidiary of Dow Chemicals) bribed Indian officials has caused a...
The Maharashtra elections results can’t be explained by Raj Thackeray alone, as I argue in this opinion piece in today’s Indian Express. The larger question is why the opposition to the...
The targeted kidnapping and beheading of a Jharkhand police inspector, almost certainly by Naxalites, is seen as taking the conflict to a new level. Chhattisgarh-based doctor Binayak Sen (whose...
A Maharashtra Assembly ticket given by the Congress party to President Pratibha Patil’s son not only questions the independence of the president’s office, it highlights one of the gravest...
Here’s an opinion piece I wrote in today’s Indian Express on whether the dispute over Justice Dinakaran’s appointment is our own ‘Robert Bork moment’ i.e. it...
Bibek Debroy has written part one, two, three, and four of a five-part series on legal reform in India, in The Financial Express,. The final, fifth, part appeared today. Bibek is one of India’s...