Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Rights on Mar 24th, 2007
Justice Anand Presented the Annual Tarkunde Memorial Lecture on HUMANISM: THE ESSENCE OF CIVIL LIBERTIES.Below are some of the excerpts from the lecture. The basic concept of civil liberties is the upholding of the dignity and worth of the individual, which is the essence of human rights. Man is born free and there is constant [...]
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France: ‘Every person shall have the right to die with dignity; this right shall include the right to choose the time of one’s death and to receive medical and pharmaceutical assistance to die painlessly. No physician, nurse or pharmacist shall be held criminally or civilly liable for assisting a person in the free exercise [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2007
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH : A GLOBAL WARNING feat. Al Gore directed by : Davis Guggenheim/ 93 min An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary film about climate change, specifically global warming. Directed by Davis Guggenheim and presented by Al Gore, the film explores data and predictions regarding climate change, interspersed with personal events from the life [...]
One multinational Company, a communist government in the State, 4000 police personnel and 10,000 acres of land; All that is required for a massacre that results in the death of 20 villagers and wounds 70 more. This incident has now turned out to be one of the worst instances of the abuse of state power [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2007
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Chapter III – POLICE AND THE LAW The above chapters are indirectly related to a greater issue of accountability and responsibility on the part of the government on the part of the government to educate the citizens about the law and not abuse the powers in the hands of the state machinery. In this chapter [...]