Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2011
“The Lady doth protest too much, methinks.” The famous line from Hamlet doesn’t imply a sense of ‘protest’ but that the lady objects a little too much to be believed. I personally think it is high time Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Health Minister came out of the closet. He talks to much on the issue. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2011
A petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court challenging the mandatory “silent observer” scheme of the government under which officials can keep track of the use of sonography machines in hospitals in order to curb female foeticide. The HC has reserved its order on the issue but the basic arguments of the petitioner [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 2nd, 2011
We live in an age of information. It may be safe to say that one’s success may well depend on how well informed that person is. This holds especially true of lawyers and law students. Truly, information gathering is the key. Sources of information gathering over the internet may involve, RSS feeds, customized google [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31st, 2011
For the past few days in the news, readers would have noticed that the issues of extradition of Warren Anderson (in India) and Bosnian Serb Radko Mladic. I wish to briefly expound the law behind extradition from an international legal perspective. First, it must be remembered that extradition means the sending of those accused of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30th, 2011
With the President rejecting the mercy petitions of two convicts on death row, time has again come for the debates surrounding the death penalty to be revived. The issue in the present cases seem to be rather political though. One of those convicted was a member of the Khalistan movement and the political parties from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2011
A few weeks ago the whole country straddled along with Anna Hazare and supported his indefinite fast against corruption. His demands were quite controversial and are now mired with disagreements within the committee itself. Not surprisingly though, the press doesn’t seem to be covering another indefinite fast started a few days ago by Medha Patkar. [...]