Revisiting the online edition of The Nation (which describes itself as “the flagship of the left” in America) after a long time, I was pleasantly surprised to find in its current issue an...
In a provocative article, cartoonist Rajinder Puri (he writes on Constitutional issues also) argues that our Constitution makers in fact envisaged an Executive Presidency. He challenges the first...
India has become the preferred destination for multinational companies (MNCs) to outsource significant parts of their operations to be performed on Indian shores. For this purpose, the MNCs establish...
The current issue of EPW has an interesting article on conceptual differences between caste and class and their role in the reservation policy. Some of the author K.D. Saksena’s points struck...
Reading Dilip’s stimulating post on the judgment recently delivered by Justice Dhanapalan of the Madras High Court, and his discussion of the Pai and Inamdar rulings, reminded me that some of...
The Madras High Court judgment delivered by Justice V. Dhanapalan that Mr. Arun Thiruvengadam discussed in his post (see below) is elaborated in a few key respects in some detail below. Brought...
Continuing the trend set by Umakanth of updating issues previously explored on the blog, those who followed the brief discussion about the debate over whether and how foreign retailers should be...
A previous discussion on this blog (Law and Other Things: SEZs: The Furore Over Land at Nandagudi) had highlighted the need for a review of the Government’s policy on SEZs. It has been reported in...
I had blogged earlier (Law and Other Things: The Continuing Controversy Over Retail Trade) that where franchisee arrangements are permitted by the existing policies, foreign parties should not be...
The justice delivery system in India relating to specialised areas of law such as company law, competition law, taxation, intellectual property and so on suffer from two primary drawbacks: (i) a lack...
Today’s Hindu is reporting a ruling by the Madras High Court which, if carried to the Supreme Court (a course of action that seems inevitable, given the issue), has the potential to cause a re...
Responses by Mr.Arun Thiruvengadam and Mr.Dilip (in the comments section to my previous post) made me further think about the Shiv Kripal Singh case. Here are, what I think, some similarities. Arun...
I want to begin by thanking V. Venkatesan for his prompt and detailed response to my comment and for setting out the facts and decision in the Shiv Kripal Singh case, as well as the provisions of law...