Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2009
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a petition at the admissions stage challenging the Insurance Amendment Bill, 2009. The Bill seeks to abolish the commissions paid to insurance agents and instead charges a fee on that basis. The reason for rejecting the petition was quite simple; it is only a BILL and not a LAW [...]
Posted in Foreign Affairs, india on Nov 28th, 2009
Yesterday, there were two important press conferences in India that dealt with the establishment’s view of the crisis unfolding in Dubai. One was Mr. Anand Sharma’s, where the Commerce and Industry Minister sought to allay fears of its impact on India. Around the same, there was one by Dr. Thomas Isaac, Kerala’s FinMin, who (quite [...]
Posted in Foreign Affairs on Nov 27th, 2009
Referring twice to Dick Cheney as “Darth Vader,” ElBaradei told me in an interview that “U.S. policy consisted of two mantras — Iran should not have the knowledge and should not spin one single centrifuge. They kept saying, wait, Iran is not North Korea, it will buckle. That was absolutely a mistake.” Roger Cohen, NYT [...]
Posted in Democracy, Foreign Affairs, india, Politics on Nov 26th, 2009
In his op-ed on Foreign Policy, Daniel Twining speaks on the significance of considering the US’ relationship with India as a value-based interaction among the world’s largest and most populous democracies. He criticizes the Obama Administration for attempting to engage China in a near zero-sum, interest-based relationship, one that is myopic in nature. Taking a [...]
Posted in Constitution, Court, india on Nov 25th, 2009
This is the 300th post of this blog and we have come a long way from scratch to be where we are today. The credit to this goes to support received by our readers, classmates and friends in the legal community and each of us authors as such. I couldn’t think of a more fitting [...]
The screenshot’s from Serve.gov, a U.S State website that encourages community service and volunteer work. Ever since the Obama administration took office at the beginning of the year, the White House has embraced online social interaction, using tools like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to facilitate a two-way flow between Government and civil society. Web 2.0, [...]