I received the following guest post from SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL, RTI activist: The Department of Justice should be complimented for launch of its new user-friendly website aimed towards transparency...
Justice Srikrishna’s interim report on the violent incidents at the Madras High Court complex on 19th February is now available in the public domain. Obviously, Justice Srikrishna has been...
As India goes to elections in a month’s time, there is a pervading sense of concern and of dismay about the candidates, political parties and alliances that form part of the electoral canvas. A...
Full-text of the judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in the case of Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee v. The Government of AP is posted here. The judgment required an FIR to be...
There is an interesting article in the latest edition of Outlook here on backlogs and delays in the various High Courts. The article does not make any new arguments- the interesting part is really...
The FMP’s panel discussion on ‘Is religion beyond media’s scrutiny?’ brought forth interesting responses. Some speakers, notably Chandan Mitra and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan...
The recent refusal of the Supreme Court to come to the aid of D.Ajith, facing harassment from Shiv Sena which has filed a criminal complaint against him alleging criminal intimidation and outraging...
As I wrote earlier, the Chennai developments are a great cause for concern. If there is one silver lining in all the distressing news of the last few weeks, it is that Justice B.N. Srikrishna, a...
The Campaign for Judicial Accountability organised a public protest on the judicial assets declaration case outside the Supreme Court yesterday. Among various independent activists, students and...
Well, we have had enough of rave reviews of the film. Here are two critical reviews which I found interesting. Sudip Mazumdar’s Man Bites Slumdog is an absorbing autobiographical account of a...
My previous post focused on the challenges that the Bush administration’s preventive detention policies pose for the Obama administration. This is in part because individual lawyers who now...
The debate in Rajya Sabha on the Bill to increase the Judges’ salaries is, like the Lok Sabha debate earlier, equally noteworthy. Arun Jaitly, a former Law Minister, used the occasion to...
The Foundation for Media Professionals, New Delhi, is organising a panel discussion on ‘Is Religion beyond media scrutiny?’ on March 2 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (followed by lunch)at India...