Something About The Law

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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Last week, the bulls in Spain made headlines. There is now a law in Catalonia, Spain that bans bullfighting. Thus anyone who indulges in this activity will have committed an offence under the Animal Protection Act. To any lover of Hemingway, this would perhaps imply the death of one of the charming features of this [...]

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Nussbaum’s piece for the NYTimes on why the burqa ban does not suit the liberal democracies of Europe. Great read – she rips apart legal and moralistic arguments for such a ban, piece by piece. I’ve pasted disjunctive extracts here. The criticism is based primarily on inviolable philosophical underpinnings, and how the said reasons fail [...]

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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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The Times Online carried this piece a week ago: NEW revelations about Pope Benedict XVI’s alleged role in covering up accusations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy have exposed the Vatican to the risk of lawsuits brought by victims around the world. Mounting anger at the Catholic Church’s failure to act on predatory priests in [...]

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