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Fried Bread and Governance in Abyei
This morning, I awoke to a chorus of crickets, birds and frogs. Alarmingly, the compound’s amphibian friends shriek like demented babies. My tent does not zip-up, so I shined my head torch onto the floor (as the security brief urged), to verify that I had acquired no snake comrades. My tent was serenely peaceful. As I looked [...]
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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 Civil liberties, Constitution, Court, Featured, Human Rights, Law, Rights, Rule of Law, india Tagged india, Judicial Activism, Supreme Court 7 Comments
VIP – Yeh andar ki baat Nahi hai
Recently returned from a four-day visit to several shrines in and around the AP-Karnataka border, I was struck by a facet of modern Indian life that I find hard to reconcile with my expectations of a sovereign socialistic secular democratic republic. I also find it disturbing that the millions of others who have been to [...]
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Nepal’s Constitutional Crisis: Why India Should Be Worried
Members of Nepal’s Parliament have reached a consensus, ending an impasse that might have resulted in its dissolution. The ‘deal’, struck well past the midnight deadline of May 28, ensured that the country will not plunge into yet another political crisis that looked a certainty till yesterday. For now, the people of Nepal, the Governments [...]
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Khap Panchayats and the prohibition of ‘same-gotra’ marriages
Two op-eds appeared in the papers today that presented two radically different approaches to the recent furore about the honour killings by khap panchayats, and a burgeoning demand for the amendment of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 so that certain communities can prohibit marriages within the same ‘gotra’. Pinky Anand, in The paradox of the [...]
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