Archive for August, 2010

Spot-Fixing at Lords
August 29, 2010, 2 Comments

A week after having waxed lyrical about the precocity of Mohammad Amir’s talents, it is utterly depressing to report o ...

Legal reasoning in the Vedanta report
August 29, 2010, 1 Comment

‘There’s no emotion, no politics, no prejudice’, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh was quoted as sayi ...

Proposed amendments to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act (the “Act”) (Part II)
August 28, 2010, 10 Comments

Introduction My previous post discussed the amendments to Sections 2(2) and 11 of the Act proposed by the Consultation P ...

L.S.D. and the Age of the Camera*
August 27, 2010, 8 Comments

Anurag Kashyap often narrates the anecdote about his first movie, Paanch. Apparently, it was rejected the Censor Board c ...

The Denouement
August 27, 2010, 1 Comment

Why the passage of the Nuclear Liability Bill is not the end of the story

Zero: A philosophical history of an Indian Idea – II
August 27, 2010, 36 Comments

 The Men Who Knew Infinity  Zero and infinity are curious beasts; they defy our logical understanding of the world. Tr ...

Political Contributions by Corporations – A Comparative Study (Part I)
August 26, 2010, 2 Comments

In January this year, the United States Supreme Court decided an important issue concerning the personhood of corporatio ...

Mining Right(s)
August 24, 2010, Comments Off

This new revamping suffers from the same problem that has characterised a lot of recent legislative activity in India � ...

Cymbal #6:: Funerary Moods
August 24, 2010, Comments Off

The first time I heard this song, on the Path at the NLS campus, it was on a fairly short lived medium – the mp3 D ...

On Gandhi – Part 1
August 24, 2010, 10 Comments

This is my first article on the series on Gandhi, which I will continue in the subsequent times. Any discussion on any t ...