Even as the BJP seeks to make the non-hanging of Mohd.Afzal, the lone convict in the Parliament attack case facing death penalty, as a major campaign issue, the facts in the MHA files show that he...
While watching various channels debate the E.C.’s order on Varun Gandhi’s hate speech, I could see that the participants completely missed the real issue. The core issue is not whether...
I thought I would share this brilliantly written piece by Martha Nussbaum with readers of this blog. Published in the somewhat obscure (at least for me), Boston Review, it tells the story of Jamia...
FLASH: I am glad the EC has heeded my advice! (March 23). Readers can access the full text of the EC’s Order here My last post on the subject rightly drew a few rejoinders in the Comments...
Ramalakshmi is a trained museum professional and has worked in museums in the U.S., including the Smithsonian Institution. She is also a guest faculty in the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. But...
Varun Gandhi’s hate speech has been delivered under peculiar circumstances, and the EC is confronted with a new situation. He is yet to secure his party’s nomination as a candidate for...
Update: Arvind Narrain’s LASSNET paper linked below (and here). Prashant Bhushan (noted public interest lawyer) presented a carefully-researched paper titled Sacrificing Human Rights And...
Awaking to the news that the government in Pakistan had agreed to reinstate Chief Justice Chaudhry I couldn’t help but feel a pride in the legal profession and happiness for all those lawyers...
I began a discussion with Madhav Khosla after reading his interesting take on Justice Kaul’s “smoking” judgment. Unfortunately, owing to certain intervening events, I lost the...
This is a certainly thought-provoking, although not completely novel, presentation by Yogendra Yadav in Mysore. It is a reprise of a talk he gave previously on the same subject, and was covered on...
While reading an article on the ongoing turmoil in Pakistan, I couldn’t miss the parallel between Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification with that of Jayalalithaa in 2001. In both cases, the...
Having read the well-written judgment by the AP High Court in the police encounter case, I am more than convinced that its order is unexceptionable. Its order can be summarised thus: Every time a...
Here is a guest post by Gopal Sankaranarayanan, an advocate practising in the Supreme Court of India, which responds to Venkatesan’s post on the Srikrishna report. I’m also posting below...