Simon Johnson’s NY Times column on Friday claimed that during the recent G-20 meeting a deal was struck by the United States with the Europeans that the next IMF chief would not come from...
An article (‘Its own course‘) in the current issue of Outlook discusses the present situation at the Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU), Raipur where the student community is on...
A recent report by the PUCL-Karnataka on ‘Cultural Policing in Dakshina Kannada: Vigilante Attacks on Women and Minorities 2008-9‘ released in March 2009 fills in the gaps on the cultural...
In the 10th Kohli Memorial Lecture on ‘Criminal Justice System – growing responsibilities in light of contemporary challenges’, delivered on 2 April 2009, the Chief Justice of India...
Shamnad’s and my posts have elicited quite a few comments, which explain (and also fail to explain) some facets of Indian secularism. Here, I wish to confine myself to some of the seemingly...
Shamnad’s post has raised some interesting issues. I would broadly endorse his concern over Justice Katju’s unfortunate reported remarks. But we must understand that these remarks are...
Venkatesan’s interesting post on the Salim case (dealing with the extent to which minority institutions can lay down rules that conflict with the religious beliefs of a student) drew some...
In what may perhaps be the first academic study in the field, Professor Jayanth Krishnan (who is also a contributor to this Blog) examines the issues that revolve around the opening up of the Indian...
Supreme Court’s summary dismissal of a Muslim student’s petition against his school’s decision to remove him from the school raises disturbing questions about the court’s...
While examining issues pertaining to corporate governance, a myopic approach is to look at the interest of the shareholders, whose interests are to be protected. On the other hand, there is a school...
The dismissal by the Supreme Court of the SLP by Mr.Joynath Victor De against his compulsory retirement by the Indian Airlines Ltd. for refusing to trim his moustache is bizarre because one expected...
Supreme Court’s judgment in Sanjay Dutt’s case, denying his plea for suspension of his conviction under the Arms Act is based on the subtle distinction which the Court tried to make...
This blog has discussed the issue of housing discrimination several times in previous posts (I, II, III and IV), so it may not be very interesting to go through the legal arguments once again (for...