The “Idea Exchange” section of today’s Sunday Express has an interview with the academic Christophe Jaffrelot, whose area of specialisation is Hindu nationalism. While the idea of having several journalists interview a single public figure …
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Mandal II: Marc Galanter Revisited
Marc Galanter’s classic, Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India was published in 1984, a few years before the Mandal I controversy erupted in 1990. Many years have gone by, and in the …
Continue readingMandal II : The Likely Arguments
As the Supreme Court’s hearing on April 23 of the Government of India’s application for vacation of stay on S.6 of the CEI(RA) Act approaches, there is some clarity on the contending arguments likely to …
Continue reading“MASHELKAR COMMITTEE EFFECT” ON THE DATA EXCLUSIVITY DEBATE
In a piece titled “Pharma firms will have to wait a while for data exclusivity norms”, the Economic Times states: “Call it the Mashelkar effect! The Satwant Reddy committee, which is examining whether MNCs should …
Continue readingGail Omvedt on the need for a caste-based census
Today’s Hindustan Times has a column by the sociologist Gail Omvedt who argues that the recent stay order on OBC quotas and the government’s response to it, point to the need for a caste-based census …
Continue readingNew Twist to Mandal II: GOI’s Application for vacation of stay reveals interesting facts
The SC’s Pasayat-Panta Bench has clarified that the March 29 interim order was indeed a stay of S.6 of the Central Educational Instituitons (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 with regard to OBCs, and not an …
Continue readingMehta’s assessment of Supreme Court politics in India
The April 2007 issue of the Journal of Democracy has a feature on “India’s Unlikely Democracy” which includes an article by Pratap Bhanu Mehta titled “The Rise of Judicial Sovereignty.” Mehta’s piece reiterates some of …
Continue readingPractical problems with the Special Marriages Act
Coomi Kapoor has a column in today’s Indian Express which draws on her experiences to highlight serious problems with the implementation machinery of the Special Marriages Act, as well as the mindset of those who …
Continue readingRenewing focus on protection of whistle-blowers in India
An editorial in the current issue of the EPW seeks to highlight the importance of a Bill that aims at protecting whistle-blowers in India. It recalls the high-profile cases of S. Manjunath and Satyendra Dubey, …
Continue readingQuota debate : Need for Clarity
As the quota debate continues to rage in the media, evidence of gaps in understanding the issue has come to the fore even among well-known observers and recognized experts.Today’s Times of India carries the article …
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