In a recent article in the British journal Public Law, Shubhankar Dam critiques the Indian Supreme Court’s decision in Rameshwar Prasad. Dam argues that the Court incorrectly identified the...
1. My article, quoting anonymous I.P.experts at Spicy IP and a TTD’s advisor, on why the grant of G.I status to Tirupathi laddu is improper. I ask whether it is an instance of use of a secular...
A quick glance across the web page profiling former judges of the Supreme Court of India left me startled. The list of judges begins with (the famous) Justice Khanna, appointed in 1971, leaving all...
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...
The excessive delay in disposing of mercy petitions has received much public attention recently, especially in the case of Afzal Guru. Last week the Supreme Court expressed its concern about this...
The Indian Express published an editorial of mine, where I argue that India needs to urgently delink drug regulation from intellectual property issues, since the aims and objectives of these regimes...
There is an interesting review of the movie Kaminey, titled Social Dystopia or Entrepreneurial Fantasy: The Significance of Kaminey (here), by M.K. Raghavendra, film critic and scholar, in the...
I am not a scientist, and this is not a science blog. But the just-published study in Nature may have interesting implications for some important legal and political debates around caste. India, the...
Recent events surrounding the release of Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah have resulted in renewed interest in Jinnah and his legacy both in the press and on this blog as can be seen here and...
The issue of encounter deaths or extra-judicial killings has never been a subject of serious probe for Indian journalists until the Tamang Report on the 2004 killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others...
1. Forum for Judicial Accountability’s representation to SC collegium on Justice P.D.Dinakaran. 2. How the Central Vigilance Commission made itself irrelevant in the fight against corruption. 3...
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...
Fali Nariman was interviewed last night on NDTV’s Walk the Talk (reprinted in the Indian Express on 21/9/09). In the interview Nariman stated – with some prodding by Shekhar Gupta –...