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		<title>Twittering free speech</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingaboutthelaw.com/2011/03/07/twittering-free-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard politicians saying one thing in private (or a private gathering) and saying another in a public forum? Politicians are always under scrutiny and their statements are time and again matched up to the party line. That may be good for party politics but surely not for good democracy and free speech. If one [...]


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		<title>Problems with the Right to Education Act &#8211; II</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Continued from the preceding analysis of the Act&#8217;s salient provisions) Whereas the Act guarantees a right to seek transfer to any other school where the child is required to move from the one in his/her neighbourhood, there are no measures to ensure that such a transfer will be a smooth transition for the child. In [...]


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		<title>Problems With The Right to Education Act &#8211; I</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After India’s Independence, one of the foremost concerns in acknowledging a fundamental right to education had been the problem of ‘economic capabilities’ of the State. Indeed, subsequent Governments have chosen to hide under the garb of unavailability of resources in implementing National Policies on Education. Several high-level Committee Reports have debunked the myth of financial [...]


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		<title>Obama&#8217;s AfPak Speech and India.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a very interesting take on the India connection from Obama&#8217;s speech yesterday, by Robert Kaplan, known for his controversial views on foreign affairs. The statement has been sourced from the Centre for a New American Security (more specifically, from comments by National Security Experts on Obama&#8217;s speech). The full statement may be viewed here. [...]


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		<title>Indo-U.S. Relations &#8211; A culture of solidarity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his op-ed on Foreign Policy, Daniel Twining speaks on the significance of considering the US&#8217; relationship with India as a value-based interaction among the world&#8217;s largest and most populous democracies.  He criticizes the Obama Administration for attempting to engage China in a near zero-sum, interest-based relationship, one that is  myopic in nature. Taking a [...]


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		<title>Twitter and the NREGA: A Case for Web 2.0 in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The screenshot&#8217;s from Serve.gov, a U.S State website that encourages community service and volunteer work. Ever since the Obama administration took office at the beginning of the year, the White House has embraced online social interaction, using tools like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to facilitate a two-way flow between Government and civil society. Web 2.0, [...]


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		<title>History Repeating Itself</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingaboutthelaw.com/2009/03/14/history-repeating-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camus idea that dissent must never be confused be disloyalty may find new vigour with the events unfolding in Pakistan. President Zardari has applied Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in the country thus giving a free hand to the security officials to make arrests of those protesting against the state of that [...]


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