The issue of delays in the Indian legal system has generated considerable discussion on this blog. (See, for instance, two separate discussions from the 2007 archives here and here). Colin Gonsalves...
In a stinging critique, Upendra Baxi has compared Justice C.K.Thakker’s judgment in the Manu Sharma case to the A.D.M.Jabalpur judgment of the Supreme Court during the Emergency,and has called...
The Maharashtra Govt’s SLP against the Bombay High Court’s lifting of the ban on the book Shivaji, written by James Laine came up for hearing before Justices Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam...
The recent spike in oil prices has rekindled the debate on the need to impose a windfall profits tax on private oil companies. The matter has even acquired political overtones in the US presidential...
A new blog, Scholars without borders has been online for quite some time, and doing great service to those academically inclined. Those who have not heard it earlier, may visit it now.
DIVIDED WE STAND: INDIA IN A TIME OF COALITIONS by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta & Shankar Raghuraman, Sage, 2007. As the UPA Government at the Centre struggles to survive in power, with the vote of...
As the Supreme Court is all set to take up the regular cases from July 15, the list of Specially Directed and Adjourned Matters for the period from July 2008 onwards (the terminal list)has been put...
In a persuasive article in EPW (the access to this link may be denied to non-subscribers later), Ramachandra Guha identifies the obstacles to the writing of contemporary history, and outlines how...
I am posting here the gist of 28th JP Memorial Lecture delivered on 23 March 2008 at Gandhi Peace Foundation, Delhi, by Professor Yogendra Yadav of CSDS. I read the text of this lecture in The...
In today’s Hindu, Tarunabh and I have underlined the three major infirmities in the Rajasthan Government’s compromise with the Gujjars who ended their agitation recently. The larger...