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UIDAI Leaks
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 [...]
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Khap Panchayats: A lesson in legal pluralism?
(Guest post by Sahana Manjesh, a third year student at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.) One of the important debates within the sociology of law is the appreciation of legal pluralism. As a student of law, I am taught about the legal system in place in my country and elsewhere; a system that is [...]
“Veiled Threat”
Nussbaum’s piece for the NYTimes on why the burqa ban does not suit the liberal democracies of Europe. Great read – she rips apart legal and moralistic arguments for such a ban, piece by piece. I’ve pasted disjunctive extracts here. The criticism is based primarily on inviolable philosophical underpinnings, and how the said reasons fail [...]
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India’s War on People- Arundhati Roy speaks
On the 2nd of June, 2010, I had the opportunity to see Arundhati Roy and Gautam Navlakha speak on ‘India’s War on its People’ in a lecture organised by the Commitee for the Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR). In a packed hall at the Press Club, Arundhati started with the sentence “Please don’t think I’m [...]
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The Supreme Court: India’s Dark Knight
So much for the notion that all of constitutional law lies there in the Constitution waiting for a judge to read it fairly […] That is why the simplistic view of the Constitution devalues our aspirations, and attacks that our confidence, and diminishes us. A week back, Justice David H. Souter, who stepped down from [...]
Also posted in Constitution, Court, Democracy, Featured, Human Rights, Law, Rights, Rule of Law, india Tagged india, Judicial Activism, Supreme Court 7 Comments
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