After repeatedly losing their legal battle for justice and fair compensation, the survivors of 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster have rediscovered the power of padayatra, successfully used by Mahatma Gandhi...
The Consultation organized by the Human Rights Law Network for two days at the Nehru Memorial Museum, New Delhi on February 23 and 24 was a rich learning experience about the current judicial trends...
Two unrelated posts: First, there will a be a consultation this weekend critiquing the current judicial trends on environmental law at the Nehru Museum, Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg...
Today, Manoj Mitta has referred in the Times of India to the activist, Teesta Setalvad’s article in the Malayalam magazine, Mathrubhoomi, which led to the Chief Justice’s outburst in the...
For those of you interested in judicial reforms the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Judicial Reforms is holding the Second National Convention on the Judiciary and the Poor at ILI in Delhi...
The similarities are too glaring to be missed. In 1977, Indira Gandhi lifted the Emergency, and announced general elections to the surprise of the entire world. What made her announce elections then...
The editorial in the latest EPW says there are three serious issues thrown by Raj Thackeray’s movement against North Indian outsiders. One is the presence of a large army of unemployed youth in...
There have been more comments in today’s newspapers on the issue of migrants v. natives which require a reasoned response. N.K.Singh says in Indian Express: “the concerns raised by MNS are no...
The spate of comments in the media describing the protests of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena against North Indians in Mumbai as unconstitutional made me wonder whether the authors of these comments are...
This post is not about the merits or otherwise of MNS/Raj’s violent protest against migrants to Mumbai from U.P. and Bihar. Instead, it looks at the conclusions drawn from the similar nativist...
The following letter written by S.Pushparaman, Tiruchirapalli appeared in the Times of India, January 28, 1973. There is much talk these days about the “Sons of the Soil”. The advocates and opponents...
Today Steven Spielberg announced he would withdraw as an artistic advisor to the Beijing Olympics and boycott the games due to China’s strong military and economic support of the government of Sudan...
The emergence of Hillary Clinton as one of the two potential Democratic Party nominees for President has kindled interest about women in leadership positions in the US. This is of course nothing new...