Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in india on Jul 27th, 2007
Great News! The Reservations case is being transferred to a Constitutional Bench that would begin hearings on the 7th of August. Apparently 15 questions of law would be decided by the Court. However, on the 31st of this month the Supreme Court would hear the parties on the application of the Impugned Act from this [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Politics on Jul 24th, 2007
I was talking to Rachita and Aanchal tonight at the lane (They happen to be very good friends of mine). Its just that somewhere down the line the discussion got down to humanitarian issues and my notion got affirmed. “We live in this space surrounded by walls on all sides that in our petty existence [...]
There is this very interesting article by Amit Sengupta in the May-June 2007 issue of Combat law. In this article titled, “The Will to Hope”, Mr. Sengupta explores the diffusion of the Left in India and the rise of a new power in the form of Hindu fundamentalism. He argues that the BJP and the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2007
I was reading India Uncut and Point Blank when I came across this extremely hilarious cartoon on the President. Shekhar Gupta says, But when was the last time you were presented with a complete unknown as your next president? Kalam, Zail Singh, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, V.V. Giri, Sanjeeva Reddy were all people you had seen [...]
In a continuation to my previous post, I was browsing through India Uncut when I came upon this referral to The Washington Post. The article was titled “Hillary Clinton’s tentative dip into Neckline Territory”. The post couldn’t get any more hilarious. One of the paras says, With Clinton, there was the sense that you were [...]
Its taken 60 years for us to elect a woman President. After a lot of lashing out by the opposition about her credentials, she finally won it fair. But is she the right candidate for the Job? A lot of people would argue about that. I’d like to make one thing clear, “We are not [...]