Britain has taken the first step to move away from the First Past the Post System (FPP) with the Prime Minister promising to initiate legislation giving the people the right to switch to an...
Two very interesting recent pieces on the Unique Identification Scheme (UID). The first, by Ravi Shukla, appeared in the Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) about two weeks ago; available here. The...
Accountability Initiative, an excellent initiative at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, is looking for a Research Associate. The initiative has three core program areas: Research – The...
This has been a week of anniversaries. Last Sunday marked sixty years since the Constituent Assembly met for its final session and members signed the Constitution. The Election Commission observed...
There is a story told in India about access to the Supreme Court: That it is broad, that it reaches out to the downtrodden. As a result, many have the image of a Court backlogged with petitions by...
A recent United States Supreme Court opinion in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, reminded me of the “antidistortion” argument involving campaign finance questions under the...
1. My article on the challenges to Supreme Court’s opaque functioning & why the Supreme Court Collegium is wrong in asking the Government to keep the Dinakaran recommendation in abeyance...
The FMP’s seminar on the subject on January 25 provoked a good deal of discussion on various dimensions of rural reporting and on the merits of the use of the word “sexy” by the organisers to provoke...
Guest Blogger: Rohan Alva, II Year, Campus Law Centre, Delhi University. [Synopsis of the lecture delivered by Mr.Raju Ramachandran, Senior Advocate,Supreme Court of India on January 23 at CLC] Mr...
I strongly recommend to this blog The Indian Express’s Republic day special issue on the twenty court cases that have expanded the idea of India. Spread across six full pages, the special issue...