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 //   //  May 10, 2013  //  No Comments

Burgeoning Delhi Rapes: Some Reflections

[Guest Post by Latika Vashist and Amit Bindal]  I.                 The reason for writing this piece is the feeling of utter failure to comprehend the cultures of rape that engulf us. Even as the horrors of …

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 //   //  March 15, 2013  //  1 Comment

Reveal the Lemons- Speak up for Consumer Rights

[Sulzhan Bali and Venkat Kuppuswamy write on personal shopping travails on World Consumer Rights Day] A bride-to be dressed in lehenga and fleets is sitting on a dharna outside a showroom in one of Delhi’s luxury …

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 //   //  March 1, 2013  //  7 Comments

Ronald Dworkin: A Tribute

(Many tributes have been written about Ronald Dworkin, who passed away last week, celebrating his life and his achievements. This is a different kind of tribute: it is a series of personal reminisces about the way …

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 //   //  February 26, 2013  //  1 Comment

Zero Dark Thirty: Another Perspective

A film that begins with an insurgent being tortured into revealing crucial intelligence? Surely they follow that with one of the characters making a speech about the wrongness of torture? What, there isn’t so much as …

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 //   //  February 12, 2013  //  No Comments

Kitna Paisa, Kiske Haath? (How much money, in whose hands?)

[A guest post by Kartik Akileswaran and Arvind Nair. Arvind and Kartik are graduate students at the Harvard Kennedy School studying public administration and international development. Kartik has a background in public policy and international development, and has three years of ...