“When all fails, look towards the Supreme Court. You may surely get your remedy at that forum.” True that. The Supreme Court yesterday played a diplomatic card in appealing to the Pakistani Government to release all prisoners who have already spent their prison terms and/or have been unlawfully detained in that country. Quoting Faiz, Justices [...]
Category Archive for 'Politics'
Twittering free speech
Posted in Court, Democracy, Politics, Speeches on Mar 7th, 2011
Ever heard politicians saying one thing in private (or a private gathering) and saying another in a public forum? Politicians are always under scrutiny and their statements are time and again matched up to the party line. That may be good for party politics but surely not for good democracy and free speech. If one [...]
“On the Death Penalty”
Posted in Constitution, Court, Politics on Nov 29th, 2010
In the current edition of The New York Review of Books, John Paul Stevens (former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court) has reviewed “Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition” – a study on the issue by David Garland, who is the Vanderbilt Professor of Law at NYU. Through the course [...]
Several visitors to this site have asked us to write about the Radia tapes – perhaps its the stony silence in media outlets that has left many of us squirming in our seats, wondering about the integrity of those who bring us the news. Suddenly, there is a palpable sense of irony in the way [...]
Like any major global sporting event in recent memory, the Commonwealth Games have polarized public opinion. To articulate this, I can highlight three main categories of opinion on the Games: 1. The Games are good for India, and much-needed to improve its image and showcase its arrival in the international stage. 2. The Games may incur [...]
The Judge and the Grudge
Posted in Court, Politics, Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2010
The treatment meted out to two new transferred Chief Justices of High Courts is a study in contrasts. On the one hand is Justice J. H. Khehar, who is taking over the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court on a transfer from Uttarakhand. And on the other is Justice P. D. Dhinakaran, on a [...]
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