The results of the annual second review of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act have been released by the Lawyers’ Collective. The results have been discussed at a seminar...
1. Jayanthi Natarajan on the Ordinance to increase the Judges’ salaries 2. Antara Dev Sen on why the riots in Greece could have an echo in India 3. Seminar‘s January 2009 issue on the...
In his stimulating post below, Vivek Reddy takes issue with Nick Robinson’s persuasively argued case for reducing the acceptance rate of cases before the Supreme Court. The points each of them brings...
Nick Robinson’s interesting piece in Frontline argues that the Indian Supreme Court can reduce the backlog by reducing the number of cases it admits. Nick’s diagnosis goes to the root of the problem...
The Mumbai coverage cannot reach a saturation point – at least for a few more days. The latest Himal issue has a cover on Mumbai, with most articles offering a fresh view of the event...
The New Year has coincided with a divergence of views on India between foreign and Indian observers. It is not unusual for foreign observers to go wrong on India. Remember ‘India’s Most...
We wish our readers a very happy new year. The onset of a new year inevitably brings with it thoughts on how the new year would be like, with the continuing legacies of previous years staring at us...
1. I co-authored an article in the latest Frontline aiming to offer a semantic analysis of the Parliament debate on anti-terror laws and their implications. 2. Nick Robinson, our co-blogger, in this...
As the year draws to a close, I reflect on which law has made the greatest difference to the quality of living of an average Indian citizen. The RTI Act, having born in previous years, cannot qualify...
In this Mint editorial, I’ve touched upon the need to reconceptualise existing intellectual property (IP) norms to suit the needs of our ‘Informal Economy”. The logic underlying...