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 –...
Sending this courtesy my friend Rahul Cherian Campaign – Problem Statement Millions of Indians are unable to read printed material due to disabilities. There are technologies available which...
It is a sad day for Justice Kannan of Punjab and Haryana High Court for having to conclude his blogging experience. A sad day for his readers as well. Read the reasons for his last post here. While...
We are ‘blessed’ with one of the longest constitutions in the world. There is too much by way of detail, stuff that could easily have been part of ordinary statutes. No surprise, then...
The 61st anniversary of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s death anniversary would be a good opportunity to revisit the certain aspects of the controversy set off in Jaswant Singh’s book. As...
Tahir Mahmood responds to the criticisms made by Javed Anand of the 227th Law Commission report. He makes two interesting points. The first that the Law Commission since its inception in 1955 has...
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...
Newspapers today are reporting a speech by the HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal, calling for sweeping reforms in legal education. From the reported accounts it appears that Sibal is making two main points:...
Justice Bhat’s judgment on declaration of assets by judges continues to be in the limelight, and has drawn high praise from the former CJI, Justice Verma, in an op-ed that appears in...