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The height of debt, US style

By Sujit Bhar The American economy has survived by the skin of its teeth, till December. Staring at a massive default, something that could have shaken the foundations of not only the American eco...

Some Jurisprudential Takeaways?

By Prof Upendra Baxi In the din and dust of partisan political controversy over the project, the normative significance of the Supreme Court of India (SCI) decision in the Central Vista case (CVC)...

A Common Form of Torture

By Shaan Katari Libby September 11 is etched in the minds of a certain generation. I remember being woken in California, switching on the TV in my living room and watching that second plane in rea...

Bottom of the Barrel

By Shivanand Pandit As rightly pronounced by Adam Smith: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the pub...

The Conscience of the State

A row recently erupted in Punjab over the office of the A-G. Though the A-G is the CM’s man, he has to act without fear or favour in protecting the rule of law, constitutionalism and judicial independence in the state.

Suicide, a new threat to the Rule of Law

To understand the violation of rule of law, the chronology of incidents is necessary. A girl went missing in Singareni Colony in Hyderabad on September 9, a Thursday. Her body was found the same day in the neighbouring house, wrapped in a bedsheet.

PM Cares, Do We?

Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi famously said: “na khaungaa, na khaane doonga (neither will I indulge in corruption, nor allow anyone else to indulge in it)”.

When PM CARES doesn’t care for transparency!

The Prime Minister’s Office should not have deliberately ignored the will that the Parliament had expressed in the RTI Act, and the spirit of the Rules and Office Memoranda (OM) issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in responding to RTI requests.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

In order to clean up banks saddled with NPAs, the centre created the National Asset Reconstruction Company which will procure strained assets worth Rs 2 lakh crore, while the India Debt Resolution Company will dispose them of.

Simplify to Indianise

CJI NV Ramana’s call for Indianising the legal system should be taken seriously and can be done by simplifying the language of law and judgments, which are often long and prosaic and difficult for the common man to understand.

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