Continuing the trend set by Umakanth of updating issues previously explored on the blog, those who followed the brief discussion about the debate over whether and how foreign retailers should be...
A previous discussion on this blog (Law and Other Things: SEZs: The Furore Over Land at Nandagudi) had highlighted the need for a review of the Government’s policy on SEZs. It has been reported in...
I had blogged earlier (Law and Other Things: The Continuing Controversy Over Retail Trade) that where franchisee arrangements are permitted by the existing policies, foreign parties should not be...
The justice delivery system in India relating to specialised areas of law such as company law, competition law, taxation, intellectual property and so on suffer from two primary drawbacks: (i) a lack...
Today’s Hindu is reporting a ruling by the Madras High Court which, if carried to the Supreme Court (a course of action that seems inevitable, given the issue), has the potential to cause a re...
Responses by Mr.Arun Thiruvengadam and Mr.Dilip (in the comments section to my previous post) made me further think about the Shiv Kripal Singh case. Here are, what I think, some similarities. Arun...
I want to begin by thanking V. Venkatesan for his prompt and detailed response to my comment and for setting out the facts and decision in the Shiv Kripal Singh case, as well as the provisions of law...
In the light of certain doubts expressed by Mr.Arun Thiruvengadam in the comments section to my previous post, whether it would be wise to restrict the Opposition and the press’ campaign against Ms...
Ms.Pratibha Patil’s candidature has led to intense polarisation of views across the political spectrum, mired as she is in a number of unseemly controversies. Today’s Telegraph carries an...
The anniversary of proclamation of Internal Emergency (1975-77) has just passed on June 26. Every year it becomes an occasion to look back on the authoritarian tendencies which marked the Emergency...