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Someone did a search for the terms “Maldives Sex” and came upon my blog. Umm… Interesting! I myself did the search and realised that it linked to my post on a letter by Human Rights Watch , that had the terms at some corner of the post. For one second I thought my blog had [...]
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Moral Policing – All over again.
Its only been a month since I wrote the article on the Vadodara art attack case. Wounds inflicted by the not-so-stray instance upon the liberal and secular sentiments of our society have still not healed completely. What has turned out to be the cynosure of all interested eyes now, is the attack on noted littérateur [...]
Posted in Constitution, Democracy, Human Rights, Law, Rule of Law, india 3 Comments
Novartis’s loss, the poor man’s gain
Novartis has finally lost. The High Court of Madras in a landmark ruling upheld the validity of Section 3 (d) of the Patents Amendment Act, 2005. Novartis had challenged the validity of the Section stating that it was not compliant with the TRIPS. If Novartis would have won, then subsequently its drug patent application would [...]
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Sorabjee on Sanjay Dutt’s Sentence
Has Judge P D Kode been fair to Sanjay Dutt? That was the key question Karan Thapar asked Soli Sorabjee, the former solicitor general and former attorney general, on CNN-IBN Devil’s Advocate. Karan Thapar: Mr Sorabjee, let us start with the six-years rigorous imprisonment sentenced to Sanjay Dutt. Given that he and his family did [...]
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Final Solution : Bestowed the Recognition
Banned by the censors, rejected by Mumbai International film festival, now being awarded by the President of India! In the just announced 53rd National Film Awards, Rakesh Sharma’s internationally-acclaimed documentary Final Solution about the Gujarat carnage has been given the Special Jury award comprising a Rajat Kamal and a cash prize of Rs Ten [...]
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