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Moily mulls over activism
Union law minister Veerappa Moily on Monday asked the judiciary to restrain itself from admitting PILs and said “unrealistic judicial activism on the part of the judges is one of the main reasons for increased Naxalism in the country”. Moily said his concern was that when judges admit PILs and deliver judgments, “they should be [...]
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One year of SATL: 2009 in Review
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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There’s Something About the Law…
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice - Oliver Wendell Holmes When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other self-confessed perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks stand trial in the Southern District Court of New York next year, something about the law that’s unique to the justice system in such high-profile, [...]
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Like grease that smoothes daily decisions
Slightly along the lines of an older post on why sharia is “bad for society”, here is a fantastic article I came across yesterday. It appeared in the Foreign Policy (FP) magazine in April 2009. Neil MacFarquhar writes about how the concept of fatwa, originally meant to signify any direction from a learned cleric interpreting [...]
Binayak Sen’s release and my Concern
I was at Dantewada when there was a protest against the detention of Binayak Sen at Raipur. Four students from the Indian Institute of Sciences at Bangalore had attended it from where they decided to pay a visit to the Ashram (now demolished) at Dantewada. Very enthusiastic people I must say. From what I reckon [...]
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