Something About The Law

A backdated post. Written on the 13th of May 2009 – 25 people were picked up from their village ______________ a few days ago. Only 15 were brought back to teh police station and locked up. The remaining 10 are missing and the forces deny their existence. – A few days ago, the Naxal forces [...]

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A rather unusual dig from an article that appeared, four years ago, in a publication called American Thinker. Appreciate the full irony of the title of the name of the paper and the title of this piece. I reproduce the article in full, because I found I could not omit any one part of it [...]

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The violence just never seems to end. I’ve been in Dantewada for the past one week and each day has been more adventerous (in a violent way) than the other. The ahram I was using as my base had just torn down by the CRPF, SPOs and the Judum. An Act of Vendetta considering the [...]

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In his piece on the development of a new paradigm in education, K.N Panikkar has attempted to identify the structural and qualitative inadequacies prevalent in the current educational set-up. This post intends to discuss the article in its entirety and identify certain areas, which I believe, needs further clarification. The introductory part of the article [...]

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Why are text messages limited to 160 characters? Why not more – surely we seem to have a lot to say to each other – or less? Why not 200, or even 150? A recently published article in the Los Angeles Times reveals a fascinating, yet somewhat disturbing, story. Alone in a room in his [...]

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Hindutva seems to have got new vigour now. The Advisory Board constituted to examine Varun Gandhi’s hate speech and booking under the National Security Act has recommended the withdrawal of the said Act against Vaun Gandhi. (news item here) The three member panel comprising two retired HC judges Justices S N Sahai and P K [...]

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