In previous posts on this blog available here and here, I summarised the panel discussions at the PRS Conference on Effective Legislatures held at New Delhi, on December 5th, 2008. The discussion...
[I feel privileged to introduce Manoj Mitta to our readers. A senior editor with the Times of India, New Delhi, he holds the distinction of having broken the highest number of legal stories in the...
V.Anantha Nageswaran has a post on Acorn that offers counterarguments in response to Salil Tripathi’s article in Livemint (also read Tripathi’s response to a person ‘D’ in the comments section where...
In this lucidly written piece, Abhinav Chandrachud, perhaps nurtures undue expectation from Soli Sorabjee’s writ petition in the Supreme Court against terror.(W.P.[c]591 of 2008). His view that...
There is much to be said in favour of creating an effective legal and regulatory environment to prevent and prosecute corporate frauds. In the latest Frontline, I have focussed on the limitations of...
I am sure a lot of our readers have been following the terrible incidents in Mangalore. I want to raise two very specific issues in this post. 1. The media, the government and a lot of other...
On our 59th Republic Day, I thought I’d reflect, in my private capacity, on a disturbing trend concerning our country’s refusal to participate or to curb its commitment to key...
1. Letter to the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare from Sama, a women’s health group suggesting changes to the Draft ART Bill, 2008 (thanks to Ms.Sarojini). 2. Business and Ethics of...
This article by Salil Tripathi explains whether Gujarat indeed made progress under Narendra Modi, and questions the claim of a few industrialists that he is PM-material. What is interesting about...
I am disappointed that two major newspapers (read edits of Mail Today and Business Standard here and here) have opted to buy my friend Manoj Mitta’s thesis that there is a lacuna in Article 74. (Read...
Subhash Chandra Agrawal is an ordinary man with extraordinary determination. His RTI appeal to the CIC resulted in the latter’s direction to the CPIO, Supreme Court, to share the information...
The Supreme Court stayed on January 23 the Bombay High Court’s judgment upholding the Bombay Municipal Commissioner’s discretion to destroy stray dogs in Mumbai, subject to certain...
This study by Rand Corporation is worth reading, even though it relies much on the published secondary literature in the Indian media after the attacks, and does not reveal anything new as such. The...