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Guest Post: Bringing transparency and efficiency in Government functioning

On April 21, 2010 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

The following is a guest post from Sushant Sinha, the person behind Indian Kanoon. ——————————————————————– While the Right to Information (RTI) Act empowers Indians to obtain anyinformation about government functioning, it is still mostly reactive …

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From the latest Frontline….

On April 20, 2010 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

The latest Frontline carries the cover story on the Dantewada massacre, analysing what has gone wrong with the Government’s strategy. My article, Reluctant Reform, sums up the findings of the CAG’s report on the modernisation …

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Guest Post: The Equal Opportunity Commission Bill

On April 20, 2010 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

Following is a guest post from Rahela Khorakiwala, who completed her LL.B. from Government Law College, Mumbai and is currently doing her LL.M. at NYU School of Law. ———————————————————————– The key concepts of the Equal …

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Centre for Disability Studies

On April 16, 2010 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

Centre for Disability Studies – NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad Internship Programme for Law Students The Centre for Disability Studies, NALSAR University of Law invites applications for its summer internship programme from interested undergraduate and …

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NAC-II: Why we must oppose it, and what is the alternative

On April 15, 2010 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

The National Advisory Council is being reconstituted. Its previous avatar saw a vigorous debate on its constitutional illegitimacy, one that is completely absent this time around. There is a sense that NAC-I did good things …

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Are Independent People’s Tribunals a farce?

On April 14, 2010 By Vinay Sitapati In Uncategorized

Have written an opinion piece in today’s The Indian Express, critical of the three-day Independent People’s Tribunal on Tribals, land grab and Operation Greenhunt. Would be glad to know of informal, civil-society ‘tribunals’ around the …

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Legislating Rights: Parliament, Courts and Separation of Powers

On April 13, 2010 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

In an interesting column in the Indian Express, Mihir Sharma ponders over ‘The Four Rights that millennial India has promised its people — to information, to food, to education, and to (rural) employment’ and notes …

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Bar Council Election and the Prospects of an Indian Bar Exam

On April 13, 2010 By Shamnad Basheer In Uncategorized

Gopal Subramanium, the current Solicitor General was recently elected as the Chairman of the Bar Council of India. We wish him the very best as he pilots this body and the profession that it represents …

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Naz Foundation case: A response to K.V.Dhananjay

On April 8, 2010 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

My last post reproducing K.V.Dhananjay’s view that the SLPs in the Naz Foundation case do not survive after the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Laloo Prasad case has led to an interesting discussion in the …

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Insulation, Judicial and Otherwise

On April 8, 2010 By Abhinav Chandrachud In Uncategorized

1. In this piece in the Economic and Political Weekly, I analyze what I term (for lack of better terminology) the “democratic” and “political” insulation of India’s constitutional judiciary. 2. In this piece in the …

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