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		<title>The New Legal Reforms may just fail</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(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 [...]


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		<title>The &#8220;other&#8221; beneficiaries of the Arab Spring</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; naturally, the focal point of discussions has shifted from the centre to the edges. For some in the Middle East, these [...]


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		<title>The fall of Tripoli</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]


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		<title>Sifting the Supreme Court&#8217;s earthy content from its soaring rhetoric</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (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 [...]


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		<title>Constitutional values prevail: The Salwa Judum Judgment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]


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		<title>The NAC Bills</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingaboutthelaw.com/2011/06/23/the-nac-bills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>LokPal Bill: Civil Society v. Guv</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a chart that details the differences between both versions of the LokPal bill &#8211; the editors at The Hindu were kind enough to carry my comparison as a cool graphic today in Op-ed. I&#8217;m attaching the chart in a text-only, PDF format below &#8211; anyone is free to use this, with or without attribution. But if [...]


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