Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Democracy, Rule of Law, Terrorism, Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2011
The “Anti Nationals” : Review of the Human Rights Watch report on arbitrary detention and torture of terrorism suspects in India Just a few days ago, British Prime Minister David Cameron made a startling speech at the Munich Conference stating that the passing acknowledgment of ‘state multiculturalism’ and policy of tolerance was one of the [...]
Posted in Constitution, Democracy, Human Rights, Terrorism on Aug 1st, 2009
I read somewhere, when one increasingly talks of democracy, it should be construed to mean a movement by the majority to suppress the rights of a minority. Can’t recall where I read it, but thought that there was in inherent fallacy in that statement. However, if one were to look at the recent amendments to [...]
Posted in Terrorism on Mar 15th, 2009
The Indian Newspapers report (Sunday TOI, p. 12) of the Obama Administration in the United States of America now doing away with the phrase ‘enemy combatant’; a designation for terror suspects to justify their detention in Guantanamo Bay. After Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the Military Commissions Act 2006 gave power to the Bush Administration to define an ‘unlawful enemy combatant’ [...]
Posted in Constitution, india, Terrorism on Jan 28th, 2009
Soli Sorabjee’s writ petition in the Supreme Court asking it to order the government to take measures to effectively deal with terrorism has created quite an interest amongst legal circles. Law and Other Things has detailed posts on it and Abhinav Chandrachud gives and interesting analysis on the ‘Right against Terror’ here. I also have written here that the petition rests [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2009
I was deeply moved to say the least after reading this article posted below. The Author is the editor of the Srilankan Sunday Leader and was shot dead. This article was published in the Guardian three days after his death. This blog has been a believer in free speech and this article helps us in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2009
EJIL Talk reports of the decision of the European Court of Justice in Kadi as one destined to become a landmark in the annals of international law. While the blog compares this decision to one of the US Supreme Court in Medellin, I propose to give another view point of this decision in terms of [...]