FLASH: I am glad the EC has heeded my advice! (March 23). Readers can access the full text of the EC’s Order here My last post on the subject rightly drew a few rejoinders in the Comments...
Ramalakshmi is a trained museum professional and has worked in museums in the U.S., including the Smithsonian Institution. She is also a guest faculty in the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. But...
Varun Gandhi’s hate speech has been delivered under peculiar circumstances, and the EC is confronted with a new situation. He is yet to secure his party’s nomination as a candidate for...
Update: Arvind Narrain’s LASSNET paper linked below (and here). Prashant Bhushan (noted public interest lawyer) presented a carefully-researched paper titled Sacrificing Human Rights And...
Awaking to the news that the government in Pakistan had agreed to reinstate Chief Justice Chaudhry I couldn’t help but feel a pride in the legal profession and happiness for all those lawyers...
I began a discussion with Madhav Khosla after reading his interesting take on Justice Kaul’s “smoking” judgment. Unfortunately, owing to certain intervening events, I lost the...
This is a certainly thought-provoking, although not completely novel, presentation by Yogendra Yadav in Mysore. It is a reprise of a talk he gave previously on the same subject, and was covered on...
While reading an article on the ongoing turmoil in Pakistan, I couldn’t miss the parallel between Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification with that of Jayalalithaa in 2001. In both cases, the...
Having read the well-written judgment by the AP High Court in the police encounter case, I am more than convinced that its order is unexceptionable. Its order can be summarised thus: Every time a...
Here is a guest post by Gopal Sankaranarayanan, an advocate practising in the Supreme Court of India, which responds to Venkatesan’s post on the Srikrishna report. I’m also posting below...