Archive for August, 2011

Bitter Sweet: Court Stories
August 28, 2011, 1 Comment

[A guest post by Anuj] Like all professions, I suppose, the legal one has its shares of ups and downs. There are instanc ...

Flushing Meadows
August 28, 2011, 3 Comments

I was at Flushing Meadows earlier this week – to watch the first day of the qualifying rounds for the U.S. Open – an ...

The Devil’s Double (2011)
August 24, 2011, 6 Comments

Sleazy, drug-addled, power-besotted psychopaths waving around their guns, driving their ostentatious foreign cars and ab ...

What Should the Government of India Do?
August 22, 2011, 1 Comment

[A guest post by Anup Surendranath, suggesting a prudent path that a hitherto bungling UPA government can now adopt] Thi ...

In Praise of…Parliament
August 18, 2011, 1 Comment

Soumitra Sen in Parliament

An allegorical tale as a sample question
August 17, 2011, Comments Off

I have recently started teaching a course on political obligation at the National Law School in Bangalore (July-Septembe ...

Anna Hazare and the Iberian Scorpion
August 17, 2011, 4 Comments

The Curious Case of Anna Hazare and the Government of India

Harsha Bhogle at Oxford
August 15, 2011, 7 Comments

After a sandwich lunch this afternoon, I had the pleasure of hearing a man I have long admired – Harsha Bhogle. He ...

A Bigger India Needs Bigger Thinking
August 12, 2011, 7 Comments

[This a guest post by Matthew Schwarz. Matt is studying International Finance and Banking at The Fletcher School of Law ...

The Tree of Life
August 12, 2011, 3 Comments

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Go ...