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An Indian ACLU & Article 19(2)

On August 24, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

Sometimes, our comments section includes more insightful observations than the posts themselves. In order that the exchange between Sandeep Dougal and Tarunabh Khaitan in the comments section of the earlier post does not suffer the …

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How Gujarat Government ignored Atal Behari Vajpayee

On August 23, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

“If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution, we have to tackle it ideologically … If differences of opinion remain after …

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Gujarat Government’s unsustainable ban on Jaswant Singh’s book

On August 22, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

Despite the huge controversy that the book has led to within and outside the BJP, the Gujarat Government may have no case at all to ban Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah. The text of the …

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The Judges’ assets controversy: A dialogue between a Judge and an activist

On August 21, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

Justice K.Kannan of Punjab and Haryana High Court has responded to Mr.Prashant Bhushan, Convener of the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform which has been spearheading the campaign for public declaration of assets by Judges. …

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Karnataka HC Judge’s bold, and refreshing article

On August 21, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

Rarely, HC Judges take a public position, which is opposed to that of the Chief Justice of India and his brother Judges in the Supreme Court. Therefore, Justice D.V.Shylendra Kumar of Karnataka High Court’s two-part …

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Union of India v. Ramesh Ram: Notes on oral arguments before the SC Constitution Bench

On August 20, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

[Readers are requested to first read the previous posts on the subject, to familiarise themselves with the issues] Solicitor-General: Both the Tribunal and the Madras High Court have erroneously assumed that the relaxed category is …

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Appointing “Independent” High Court Judges

On August 19, 2009 By Shamnad Basheer In Uncategorized

In a post on SpicyIP, I reviewed a big ticket compulsory licensing dispute involving the sound recording industry on the one hand, and radio stations on the other. I went on to reflect on the …

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Other Things and Constitution-Making

On August 19, 2009 By Abhinav Chandrachud In Uncategorized

Fareed Zakaria’s latest piece here captioned “If it’s not a crisis, we can’t fix it” provides an interesting backdrop to the problems associated with constitution-making. Since this blog lists ‘other things’ as part of its …

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Introducing Aparna Chandra

On August 19, 2009 By Nick Robinson In Uncategorized

I am delighted to introduce Aparna Chandra as a new contributor to the blog. Aparna graduated from the National Law School in 2006 and with a LLM from Yale Law School in 2007. She worked …

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Union of India v. Ramesh Ram: Brief notes on oral arguments in Supreme Court (August 18)

On August 19, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

The case is about the constitutionality of permitting reserved category candidates selected under general (merit) list by virtue of their good performance to migrate to reserved category for the purpose of allocation of services. Those …

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