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Satyam, Maddoff and now Stanford.
Earlier this month, the US Securities and Exchange Commission charged billionaire entrepreneur-cricket promoter Sir Allen Stanford with investment fraud for over $ 8 billion. The SEC has stated the fraud was “based on false promises and fabricated historical return data”. Following the framing of charges, there were several raids by federal regulatory agencies in the [...]
Advocating Human Dignity and Morality
Subhadra sent me an email article about the recent spate of attacks on women wearing ‘western clothes’ in Bangalore. It’s disheartening to read them and ponder on the state of things in this Country. In this earlier post, I have talked about morality and the Dworkinian conception of harm and the enjoyment of rights. I [...]
British Council Commemorative Lecture – Desmond Tutu.
The British Council is co-ordinating a series of lectures to commemorate its 75th anniversary (entitled 75 years of Cultural Relations) and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu will deliver the inaugural address on February 19,2009. The lecture series, named Talking without Borders, is aimed at providing a bird’s eye-view of the most pressing needs in today’s global [...]
Posted in Civil liberties, Democracy, Human Rights, International law, Law Tagged Africa, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Obama 1 Comment
Voting for Venezuela.
A referendum is currently under way in Venezuela where voters are to decide on a proposal that would assist elected officials in seeking as many terms as they wish. Mooted by the Hugo Chavez-led Government, the proposal is set to be a watershed in the political landscape of this South American country. A similar referendum [...]
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Reflections on Nithari
Keeping my feelings against the Death penalty aside, the verdict in the Nithari killings comes as a shock to me. It is not that I thought either of them to be innocent, but the idea of giving the harshest punishment meted out by law to them is what I’d like to question. Perhaps the best [...]
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