Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2010
The Indian courts are a mish mash of various and varied legal systems. There is of course the legacy of our colonizers writ large in the common law principles we use. Then there are principles of the Shastras and the Quran that determine our personal laws. But while these are influences on the laws themselves, [...]
Posted in Court on Jul 30th, 2010
We just received this note from Sai Deepak, an advocate at the Delhi High Court and a contributor at Spicy IP, on the Delhi HC’s comments directed at Insurance Companies stopping the cashless treatment facility unilaterally for individual patients/policy holders. The observations were made by Justice Muralidhar on a Writ Petition filed by an individual [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2010
Firstly, for everyone who has not noticed the EPW’s newfangled and updated website, please do so right now. It is nice. Secondly – this week’s magazine contains a fantastic article by Usha Ramanathan on the Unique Identity Bill. Ramanathan’s basic point is that the new UID project ignores pressing concerns of privacy guaranteed by the [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Politics, Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2010
Anthropologists generally warn us against ethnocentrism. Witchcraft then is alien to you and I but as normal as normal can be to certain peoples. The celebrated Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande by E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a seminal work in understanding sorcery many years ago. His finding was that witchcraft is used as [...]
Posted in india, Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2010
I dont know how many of us have heard of WikiLeaks. It is wikipedia’s latest offering and contains leaks of confidential documents from around the world. Time magazine says that this could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act in the USA.The newspapers in the Country have reported it here [...]
Posted in Reforms on Jul 26th, 2010
Aditya Singh, a final year student at Nalsar, is working with Jonathan Gingerich of the Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School to put together a survey on the current state of the Indian law school system. The study includes questions on how law students are evaluated, of the prevalence and causes of copying [...]