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...
In an opinion piece in the Indian Express, I review the structure of the National Investigative Agency (NIA) set up after 26/11. Will it help us to prevent another 26/11? The structure of the NIA is...
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...
In the latest issue of Tehelka, the SCBA president, Krishnamani seeks to defend Justice S.H.Kapadia, who is in the centre of the controversy over conflict of interests. (Courting Controversy)...
Commentators on the previous post have drawn attention to the fact that more commentary on the recusal issue is now available. Since the last post was written, Soli Sorabjee and Rohit Sharma have...
This short post seeks to reflect on the way comparative references have been used in the recent debate on judicial recusals in India. It is becoming clear that our judiciary needs to urgently...
The International Centre, Goa, in collaboration with Media Information and Communication Centre of India (MICCI) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) is organising the three-day Annual Media Summit at...
This article makes a case for humanities education in our times when governments only see the instrumental value of education. Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s column on proposed reforms in the Delhi...
Today’s newspapers have carried reports on how Justices Markandey Katju and Asok Kumar Ganguly advanced two entirely different reasons to make a reference to Constitution Bench to determine...
Here is my review of D.C.Wadhwa’s Endangered Constitutionalism. I was surprised to know from the book that the Centre has, so far, repromulgated only one ordinance, POTO, and that too in 2001...