Something About The Law

Four years from the murder of Shanmughan Manjunath (who was killed in an attempt to expose misgivings in the petroleum lobby in U.P), corruption remains rampant in India. No instance exemplifies this better than the 4,000-crore scam involving Madhukar Koda which has sent shockwaves through the political establishment in the country. Whistleblowers are yet to [...]

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Gopal Menon’s short documentary on Chattisgarh. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditTweet thisSubscribe to this postPrint for laterTell a friend

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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice – Oliver Wendell Holmes When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other self-confessed perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks stand trial in the Southern District Court of New York  next year,  something about the law that’s unique to the justice system in such high-profile, [...]

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What connects India, Iran, Turkey, Brazil, China and South Africa? A very unsatisfactory answer would be that they’re emerging powers in highly volatile corners of the globe. Taking India aside, an even more nebulous answer would be that they’re countries which realize their strategic importance in respective regions. Before India turns up in this piece, [...]

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Nearly a year after 26/11, a New Yorker writes on the sense of anguish faced by Indians in bearing with the delays of the justice delivery system. There are times when you feel that there is no justice in this world, and even with the courts and judiciary system in place and doing all they [...]

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The situation in Karnataka points to a low point in Indian democracy. Apart from destabilising the region itself, the Reddy brothers seem to have put forth audacious demands before the Chief Minister or else they threaten to back out of the Government. At first, I thought that the main reason was corruption charges against the [...]

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