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….
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 …
Continue readingGuest Post: The Equal Opportunity Commission Bill
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 – 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 …
Continue readingNAC-II: Why we must oppose it, and what is the alternative
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 …
Continue readingAre Independent People’s Tribunals a farce?
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 …
Continue readingLegislating Rights: Parliament, Courts and Separation of Powers
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 …
Continue readingBar Council Election and the Prospects of an Indian Bar Exam
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 …
Continue readingNaz Foundation case: A response to K.V.Dhananjay
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 …
Continue readingInsulation, Judicial and Otherwise
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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