Jason Burke, blogging in the Guardian, speculates that it may be a combination of many factors:“Finally, it is worth looking back at a previous attempt on Bhutto’s life – not that of...
The Union Health Ministry’s push to implement a mandatory year of rural service for medical students ready to graduate set off a firestorm of protests and criticism. The protests, though strongly...
In this era of globalization and free-market economy, one would imagine that the state’s role as a market participant would dwindle over a period of time. However, that seems to be untrue in one...
The Supreme Court of Nepal, in a remarkable ruling, has upheld the right of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to access full citizenship rights and not be criminalized. This is in stark...
The Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation Bill), 2007 is one of the important bills pending before the house that has somehow escaped the scrutiny of its more controversial counterpart...
Justice Chopra Committee has submitted its report to the Rajasthan Government, and the summary of the report, (Chapter Nine) is available here.. Six months ago, the Gujjars’ agitation almost...
I thank Mr. Venkatesan for drawing my attention to pieces by two legal jurists in today’s papers that adopt a critical perspective on the Mathur-Katju bench ruling. In some ways they echo...
I was appalled after reading the interview given by the Chief Election Commissioner, N.Gopalswamy on the course of action that the EC can take if they hold those accused of violating the Model Code...
TR Andhyarujina (who, as noted in this post, has written insightfully about PIL in the past) has an excellent column in today’s Indian Express which provides an objective assessment of the much...
Abhishek Singhvi, the national spokesperson of the Congress party, has a column in today’s Hindustan Times where he seeks to defend the much criticized Broadcasting Bill. Posts about the bill...
The huge backlog of cases in the Indian judiciary has often cropped up in posts and discussions on this blog. Recently, this post incidentally mentioned Chief Justice Balakrishnan’s Law Day...
The previous post ended by speculating about the reactions of judges – especially those who are regarded as more ‘activist’ – to the caustic remarks of the Mathur-Katju bench on judicial...
Today’s newspapers are devoting considerable attention to a recent decision of a division bench of the Supreme Court consisting of Justices AP Mathur and Markandey Katju. This is how the news-item in...