Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Foreign Affairs, Politics, Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2010
Noong was not to be that day. From the UNMIS gate, we called the first driver. Land Rover No 1 had experienced a mechanical failure outside Abyei, stranding the Project Team. We called the second driver. Land Rover No 2 had got stuck in the mud near the River Kir, stranding the workshop participants. Crikey, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2010
We probably need a bar exam. Five petitions have already been filed in various High Courts against the constitutionality of the latest BCI resolution and more are probably in store. There is however one argument that hasn’t figured in any of these petitions (as reported in the news). Most National law school (all national law [...]
Posted in Court, Human Rights on Jun 26th, 2010
The text of an article I wrote for the Indian Express of June 25. You can access it in its original here. The group of ministers’ recommendation to submit a curative petition in the Union Carbide case is an attempt to force a political question down the throat of the Supreme Court, expecting it to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2010
While Sophia writes her brilliant posts on her experience in Sudan, Bhopal is still on our minds. A lot has been written in varied legal circles about the issue. A good start however is Venkatesan’s article in frontline and the primer on LAOT. I’m part of the thousands who are quite disgusted with the manner [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2010
The UNDP Inter-Faith Council workshop was in full swing. My colleague – a former UNMIS Civil Affairs Officer, who was conducting the good governance component – motioned us to the front. A row of church and mosque leaders, clad in thick gumboots, sat in seats of honour along the wall. Through a Dinka translator, the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2010
An elegant guard with arrow-shaped markings on his forehead beamed through the window and asked me to sign. Packed to the gunwales, our Land Rover rocketed out of the compound and hit the road to Abyei. First stop: Agok. As we turned up the main street, my colleague – who happened to have studied at Brandeis University [...]