I am giving below the links for the stories on the bizarre case of the Judge, Justice Uma Nath Singh, of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The links are here and here. The victim, Tahar Singh, a...
As a follow up to my earlier post on TRIPS and how best to use “IP” strategically to enhance technological development for developing countries, here is a post on a blog titled...
The Rameshwar Prasad Judgment (2006 2SCC 1) is cited by Kalam’s critics to point out that it was perhaps a mild indictment of his hurried assent to the dissolution of the Bihar assembly. In my...
As A.P.J.Abdul Kalam’s eventful tenure came to an end, he seems to have generally got a very good press in terms of editorials and commentaries. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, while lauding him for...
Following up on his recent piece in the Hindu on the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (see this earlier post for a link and some basic facts about the NREGA), Jean Dreze...
While hunting for a specific post in the archives of this blog, I began to classify the types of blog posts that I found there, and realised that very few posts have actually focused on legislation...
One of our readers who identifies him(?)self as Anonymous/Raj left this in the comments section of a different post: “Would someone care to comment on the Kafkaesque treatment of the Indian...
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has proposed yet another Bill in a long series of failed legislative attempts since 1995. The story begins with the Supreme Court delivering its judgment...
I thank Mr.Arun Thiruvengadam for his suggestion that what was added as “Update” to my previous post on the subject should ideally be a new post as it raises substantive issues. The...
I thank V. Venkatesan for drawing my attention towards recent columns in the Business Standard by MJ Antony, several of which relate to ongoing legal developments in India. A month or so ago, Antony...