Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in india on Oct 12th, 2007
I got hold of a BBC survey on Torture and how people understand it around the world. Actually Time has an article on civil liberties and I read it there. More importantly, I was shocked to see the statistics on India. For Indians, (atleast a majority of them), torture is good. I think this [...]
In the last post I had displayed this cartoon from the Times of India, xntricpundits commented the following on it, Brilliant cartoon.Look at the way the cartoonist sketched it.You can see convoy of cars to your top left,ropes hanging to trees to your top right.Politician wearing goggles..mota golmatol babu in sharp contrast with lean thin [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 8th, 2007
The Book I so want to read now; Jack Goldsmith’s The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration. In October 2003, President Bush appointed Goldsmith, a self-described conservative who proudly proclaims that he is not a civil libertarian, head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, thus making him chief adviser to [...]
Posted in india on Oct 8th, 2007
The Times of India cartoon below aptly describes the title of my post. Truly we are shining. Newspapers report that the ten richest people in the Country have increased their net worth by 51% in the past seven months. That amounts to roughly $ 41.2 Billion. And yes, people still die. Capitalism seems to have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2007
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Posted in Constitution, Court, india, Rule of Law on Oct 6th, 2007
By Arundhati Roy 25 September, 2007 Outlook India Scandals can be fun. Especially those that knock preachers from their pulpits and flick halos off saintly heads. But some scandals can be corrosive and more damaging for the scandalised than the scandalee. Right now weâre in the midst of one such. At its epicentre is [...]