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Tag: Social Rights

Does Sympathy Colour (Judicial) Policymaking and the Rule of Law?

On March 4, 2016 By Vasujith Ram In Uncategorized

Identified Lives versus Statistical Lives In Andy Weir’s book, The Martian (recently adapted into a Ridley Scott movie, starring Matt Damon), the lead character, an astronaut named Mark Watney, is stranded alone on the planet …

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Guest Post: Is RTE based regulation choking quality education?

On October 13, 2015 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

The following is a guest post by Dolashree Mysoor, who is a Research Associate at the Azim Premji University, and works with the University’s Hub for Education Law and Policy (hELP). hELP is engaged in research and intervention in the …

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Social Rights in India

On July 19, 2011 By Madhav Khosla In Uncategorized

In the new issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, I study the social rights jurisprudence of the Indian Supreme Court. I make many arguments, and the piece is available here. The abstract is …

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Legislating Rights: Parliament, Courts and Separation of Powers

On April 13, 2010 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

In an interesting column in the Indian Express, Mihir Sharma ponders over ‘The Four Rights that millennial India has promised its people — to information, to food, to education, and to (rural) employment’ and notes …

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MR Madhavan on the new Right to Education Bill

On December 18, 2008 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

The UPA government recently introduced the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2008. The issue of the right to primary education in India, and the way it should be implemented through parliamentary law has …

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Caste and Economic Discrimination: A Few Comments

On November 22, 2007 By Dilip Rao In Uncategorized

This is a belated commentary on the series of studies on the relationship between caste and economic discrimination in the Indian urban labor market conducted by Sukhdeo Thorat, Katherine Newman and others that was published …

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Revisiting issues blogged about earlier, and highlighting a new women’s rights issue

On August 30, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

The purpose of this brief post is to provide updates or alternative views on issues that were featured in previous blog posts, while pointing to an interesting analysis of a previously unexplored issue. In two …

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Some background information and thoughts on angry bar-bench exchanges

On August 28, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

In the previous post, V. Venkatesan drew our attention to the exchange between Additional Solicitor General Vikas Singh and a Supreme Court bench hearing the ‘Delhi sealing case’. In doing so, he emphasised the unusually …

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Important Achievements of the RTI and the NREGA Acts for rural Indians

On August 2, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Today’s Indian Express features an op-ed by Sandeep Pandey who explains the significant practical achievements of the Right to Information Act and the National Rural Employment Generation Act for rural India in particular: “Take the …

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Further details about the implementation of the NREGA

On July 24, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Following up on his recent piece in the Hindu on the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (see this earlier post for a link and some basic facts about the NREGA), Jean Dreze …

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