Tarunabh captured some of the reactions to the Anna Hazare campaign in his post here, where he also warned that the problem of corruption is a complex multi-factorial issue, not easily amenable to...
A remarkable opinion published in the Organiser, mouthpiece of the RSS, has vigorously opposed censorship generally, and the ban on Joseph Lelyveld’s book on Gandhi in particular. It is not...
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Readers may be interested in two excellent pieces analysing the recent ‘awakening’ against corruption in India: Shuddhabrata Sengupta writing in Kafila and Mihir Sharma in the Indian...
The South Asia Initiative at Harvard recently hosted a panel discussion on constitutionalism in Pakistan. Speakers included, Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Osama...
The Legal Information Institute (LII), an organisation at the forefront of driving open access in all things related to law, launches in India in a big way. The Legal Information Institute of India...
Nearly sixty-one years since its formal inauguration, the Indian Constitution still remains a contested site of “national” consciousness. Yet the Constitution itself is both constitutive...
Pratap Bhanu Mehta will be delivering three lectures at Brown University next month. Each looks simply fascinating and those in the vicinity should most certainly attend. The first lecture is on the...
Talha Rahman had written earlier on the issue of lawyers’ deciding to boycott certain kinds of “accused”. He now has an update to his earlier post as below. In A.S. Mohammad Rafi v...
A piece titled the “The Death of Books” sparked off a fiery debate around a proposed amendment to the copyright act. Two of us (leading technology lawyer Rahul Mathan and me) initially...
In an article in the current issue of Frontline, I reflect upon the CVC judgment, and the Supreme Court more generally.
It is my pleasure to publish yet another guest post from the folks at the Pre-Legislative Briefing Service...
The South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre has joined issue with the Supreme Court in this recent EPW article. The comment is regarding the Supreme Court’s anger at Teesta Setalvad...