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How the Maharashtra Gov ended Famine

By Aditya | Published: August 29, 2010
I’d invite our readers to read Sainath’s editorial in The Hindu about food security and as to how the Maharashtra Government ended famine in its state; i.e. by refusing to recognise the term in law. Excerpt below; In 1963, the government of Maharashtra ended famine forever in the State. It did this without adding a [...]
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The Intent to Deceive

By Aditya | Published: August 24, 2010
The furore over the recent changes to the Nuclear Liability Bill is well founded. Its ironical that after all the ruckus that was created by the Centre over liability in the Bhopal Gas leak disaster, the Centre now has introduced changes in the Bill to further dilute the liability of suppliers in case of nuclear [...]
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The Judge and the Grudge

By Sahana Manjesh | Published: August 10, 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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Socio-Legal Review: Call for Submissions

By Sahana Manjesh | Published: August 9, 2010
Socio-Legal Review welcomes contributions for its seventh volume to be released in 2011. About the Journal The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published annually by the Law and Society Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The Journal aims to be a forum that involves, promotes and engages [...]
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Till the Cows Come Home

By Sahana Manjesh | Published: August 5, 2010
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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Hat Tip to the Ahelmad

By Sahana Manjesh | Published: July 31, 2010
The Indian courts are a mish mash of various and varied legal systems. There is of course the legacy of our colonizers writ large in the common law principles we use. Then there are principles of the Shastras and the Quran that determine our personal laws. But while these are influences on the laws themselves, [...]
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