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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Rape is only nominally a gender issue. It is substantially an impunity issue.

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We pass laws. We imagine and sometimes create leviathan bureaucracies. We scream on television. Yet India and the world keeps rotting. Wh...
Saturday, December 8, 2012

The Judiciary's RTI 'Quota' Fracas

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At long last, the Supreme Court has let the cat out of the bag.   It has broken the conspiracy of silence that shrouded the arbitrary a...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Prashant Bhushan And The Tail Of The Tiger

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In the autumn of 2009, Prashant Bhushan, revealed to Tehelka ("sensation") magazine that ‘Half Of The Last 16 Chief Justices Wer...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Prashant Bhushan Exceeds His Brief

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PIL seeks quashing of Andhra Pradesh high court judge’s appointment Prashant Bhushan and Ram Jethmalani, two of In...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The Shit Happens School Of Sociology.

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When   such a celebrated Indian mind such as Andre Béteille engages with the the incorrigible issue of corruption in India,  The flip ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Banalising The Beautiful. Lok Satta Does Martin Luther King.

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Happened to click on the Lok Satta site the other day and was confronted by an alleged quote from Martin Luther King. I carry the music ...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Restore The Honour Of The Andhra Pradesh High Court

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HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE NISAR AHMAD KAKRU (sic) Andhra Pradesh High Court, Hyderabad to cjap date Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:46 PM ...
Monday, May 30, 2011

The hand clap that triggered the avalanche. Comments by divakarssathya in The New Statesman

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My thanks to the New Statesman and Mehdi Hassan. A special thanks to writeoff 's testy, thoughtless but typical comment. Don...
Friday, May 20, 2011

The hand clap that triggered the avalanche. Comments by divakarssathya in The Columbia Journalism Review.

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My thanks to The Columbia Journalism Review This international campaign was the handclap that triggered the avalanche of popular revulsio...