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The Verma Committee Follow-up: A Fair Trial for the Accused
February 3, 2013, No Comments

[Every time a crime that shocks the public conscience is committed, lawyers are quick to respond by taking a collective ...

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The Verma Committee Follow-up: A Crumbling Fourth Pillar and the Forgotten Politics of Boycott
January 29, 2013, No Comments

In a speech delivered at the Reuters memorial lecture in November 2012 at Oxford University, Prannoy Roy made some candi ...

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The Verma Committee Follow-up: Delhi and the Bhaiya Problem
January 26, 2013, No Comments

It’s not clear to me at which point the word ‘Bhaiya’ entered my consciousness, living in Delhi. In its literal me ...

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The Verma Committee Follow-Up: First Thoughts
January 23, 2013, No Comments

It will take a complete purging of the deeply patriarchal and misogynous society that we live in for this mad culture of ...

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The Verma Committee Follow-up: The Challenge Ahead
January 23, 2013, No Comments

The Justice Verma Committee which released its report on Amendments to the Criminal Law, looking specifically at laws re ...

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India: For Women – Open from 8 am to 8 pm Only
January 5, 2013, 1 Comment

[A guest post by Jeet H. Shroff. Jeet is pursuing a Master’s Degree at Harvard Law School.] The rape of a 23-year old ...

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The U.S. and its Guns
December 17, 2012, 2 Comments

Children aged six and seven, moviegoers enjoying a quiet night out, Sikhs praying at an Oak Creek Gurdwara, workers in a ...

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The FDI Debate: Political Drama or Economic Reform?
December 11, 2012, 1 Comment

[A guest post by Nupur Gupta. Nupur is an Oxford economics graduate specialising in monetary policy issues in India, ...

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Barack Obama- The 44th Puratchi Thalaivar of the United States of America
November 8, 2012, 5 Comments

Let me start with a confession: I’ve always found the American electorate hard to understand. In 2010, in what was hai ...

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Burning the Gag or Gagging the Burners
August 24, 2012, No Comments

[A guest post by Manav Bhushan]  In the past 2-3 weeks, a socio-political storm of a new kind has been raging in India. ...