Something About The Law

(Guest post by Sahana Manjesh, a third year student at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.) Marriage has long been a bastion of what is considered sacred and traditional about relationships in India. Divorce then is viewed skeptically by sections of the society, law makers and adjudicators in equal measure. Mercifully though, there are [...]

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If all of intellectual property could be summed up in one maxim, it would probably be “Incentive increases innovation.” Scientists, artists and intellectuals tend to become more creative and produce both qualitatively and quantitatively better work, the theory goes, if you provide them with suitable rewards. As a corollary of this rule, others should be [...]

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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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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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After India’s Independence, one of the foremost concerns in acknowledging a fundamental right to education had been the problem of ‘economic capabilities’ of the State. Indeed, subsequent Governments have chosen to hide under the garb of unavailability of resources in implementing National Policies on Education. Several high-level Committee Reports have debunked the myth of financial [...]

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Since beginning in early January this year, we’ve had a fantastic response to our posts, events and online discussions. 2009 has been a happening year for the world and India, and that holds for us too. The graduation fromThe Social Blog has been phenomenally well-received by our readers, and thanks to you, Something About The [...]

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