Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Rights on Jul 1st, 2011
The Indian government claims that torture doesnt exist in India. Atleast that is what they told the Danish court to pursuade it to allow the extradition of Kim Davy in the Purulia arms dropping case. The court noted that India hasnt even signed the UN Convention against torture and there were serious concerns of human [...]
“The age bar to drinking alcohol is absurd, ‘arbitrary’, are an infringement on constitutional rights and will set a very very dangerous precedent.” That much sums up the various legal words used by a bollywood actor in his campaign against the recently passed law in Maharashtra restricting the drinking at to 25 and above. While [...]
Posted in Rights on Jun 11th, 2011
Please also see IBN’s 2 min video covering her fast and drawing comparison’s with Anna Hazare and Ramdev. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditTweet thisSubscribe to this postPrint for laterTell a friend
I sat in front of the computer today to read the judgment of the Supreme Court in Amar Singh v. Union of India. The expectation of reading a landmark judgment on the right to privacy of public figures turned out to be a disappointment. In this case, Amar Singh had challenged the ‘authorised’ tapping of [...]
To clarify, ‘Rolling Stone’ in this sense has no reference to Dylan or Mick Jagger’s band but a reference to the Ugandan newspaper that a few months ago published contact details and photographs of gay men who were later targetted by the community there. In or around October 2010, the Rolling Stone in Uganda published [...]
Posted in Democracy, Human Rights, Rights on Dec 16th, 2010
The jurisdiction on the internet is so blissfully twisted, and the implementation of any legal measures so incredibly impossible that the law seems to be many, many notches behind technology. WikiLeaks, to my mind, is perhaps one of the most definitive moments for the law vis-à-vis the internet. The classic debate between freedom of expression [...]