(An edited version of this article has appeared in the 23rd Nov. Edition of the New Indian Express and may be accessed here ) In 2009, the Union Government released a vision document captioned the “National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms”. The document included a series of policy initiatives aimed at reducing the [...]
Category Archive for 'Democracy'
The “other” beneficiaries of the Arab Spring
Posted in Democracy, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights on Oct 3rd, 2011
At its core, the Arab Spring has ushered in participatory politics and democratic aspirations hitherto repressed in the region. The cup of mass movements is now reaching its brim and threatens to overflow – naturally, the focal point of discussions has shifted from the centre to the edges. For some in the Middle East, these [...]
The fall of Tripoli
Posted in Democracy, Foreign Affairs on Sep 2nd, 2011
Aymen Mohammed, a student at NALSAR, chips in with an insightful piece on post-revolutionary Libya. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the blog, or mine personally. Of everything that the ‘Arab Spring’ proves, Libya remains an exception to a few rules that this “borderless revolution” has sought to establish: One, that it is [...]
Sifting the Supreme Court’s earthy content from its soaring rhetoric
Posted in Constitution, Court, Democracy, Human Rights on Jul 7th, 2011
(Update: A version of this piece with minor tweaks appears on the op-ed page of The Hindu dated July 9, 2011) In the seventies, the Supreme Court of India was called upon to decide the constitutionality of Excise Rules that allowed the State of Punjab to regulate the number of days, even hours, when liquor [...]
Constitutional values prevail: The Salwa Judum Judgment
Posted in Court, Democracy, Human Rights, Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2011
Two years ago I had written about Gantal Raju, a tribal in the village of Lingagiri, Dantewada District Chhattisgarh. About how in 2006 his father had been shot by the forces in Chhattisgarh and he had to watch his sister being raped before his eyes. It was part of a report on 40 families returning [...]
The National Advisory Council has now submitted two bills to the Government; the Food Security Bill and the Communal Violence Bill. What is crucial to note is that the drafting of both these bills have involved civil society participation through a formal process. While Government departments had been inviting comments from the general public earlier [...]
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