Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2010
This is a post from Chand Chopra, III year NALSAR and currently pursuing an exchange program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This post is mostly from Philippe Sands book, “Lawless World.” In the Chapter on The International Criminal Court (ICC) he discusses the attempts made by the United States to undermine the importance [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2010
Few of you must have read the Tehelka Article about under-age tribals arrested and languishing in the Jails of Koraput, Orissa. In case you haven’t, the article may be viewed here. Below is an appeal by two people, Devashish and Faiza (a friend of mine) who visited the area and now seek to start a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2010
Kishwar Desai’s Witness the Night (Harper Collins, 2010) is, as the blurb says, “a chilling first novel that gets to the heart of tradition-bound India.” When Simran Singh, the hard-drinking, “khadi-clad, NGO wali” protagonist of Kishwar Desai’s debut novel sets out to talk to a 14-year-old girl suspected of murdering 13 family members, she walks [...]
Posted in Constitution, Democracy, Rights on Apr 9th, 2010
(Continued from the preceding analysis of the Act’s salient provisions) Whereas the Act guarantees a right to seek transfer to any other school where the child is required to move from the one in his/her neighbourhood, there are no measures to ensure that such a transfer will be a smooth transition for the child. In [...]
Posted in Constitution, Court, Democracy, Reforms on Apr 8th, 2010
After India’s Independence, one of the foremost concerns in acknowledging a fundamental right to education had been the problem of ‘economic capabilities’ of the State. Indeed, subsequent Governments have chosen to hide under the garb of unavailability of resources in implementing National Policies on Education. Several high-level Committee Reports have debunked the myth of financial [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2010
It is quite surprising and yet laudatory that the Economic Times has taken a stood up to human rights abuses by Corporations and the issue of naxalism. In this regard, I talk specifically of the Vedanta issue and the ET Comment on the cold- blooded murder of 75 CRPF personnel in Dantewada. On the latter [...]