The government issued a press release announcing that the much awaited and controversial copyright amendment bill has now cleared “cabinet”, a group of senior ministers that represent the...
DAKSH, a group I am associated with released its 2009 report on Democracy and Governance in Karnataka. The summary reports and part of the full reports are available here. The final full report will...
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 Alternative Law Forum, in collaboration with the School of Law of Christ University, is organising a two-day seminar on ‘Human Rights in Contemporary India: Emerging Challenges.’ The...
Since my previous post highlighting the role that the principle of subsidiarity can play in devolving power, there have been three excellent columns in the Indian Express dealing with precisely the...
*T.Jayaraman’s review of Meera Nanda’s book, God Market. *My review of Anirudh Krishnan and Harini Sudersan’s recent book on reservations.*My article on how the principle of...
1. On love jihad – A Kerala judge has sought to legitimise the use of a dangerous concept – ‘Love Jihad’. Liberals should be worried, for this is a clever reactionary assault...
Outlook Website has a copy of Prashant Bhushan’s affidavit in the contempt matter against him in the Supreme Court. It makes interesting reading. I will not say more on it for the moment as it...
PRS Legislative Services just launched a beta version of their Laws of India website. Currently, it has laws from 10 states on it and they hope to add more soon. As anyone who has tried to do state...
I’m extremely happy to announce that after months of planning and designing, we’ve finally managed to execute our collaborative law-making platform, titled CLaM. Our first proposal...
The Supreme Court’s judgment in Dr.Gulshan Prakash v. State of Haryana (Delivered on December 2 by Justices K.G.Balakrishnan-P.Sathasivam-J.M.Panchal)is sure to create a controversy of sorts...
The IT Act amendments recently came into force. I have a post on SpicyIP examining the amendment to section 79 of the IT Act dealing with ISP/intermediary liability. As per the amendment...
As I was writing this article, I was intrigued by two facts, which defied easy explanation. Why do most commissions of inquiries start with a very limited tenure only to be extended many times later...