The sedition law, under which Gandhi and his freedom fighters were jailed, has been reviled and condemned as anachronistic and an imperialist hand-me-down. It has also been challenged in court. But it still flourishes.
In this issue of India Legal (February 15, 2021), our columnist Shivanand Pandit takes a close look at the Budget and what it proposes to do. It is not a wishy washy document. The Modi government has tried to put an honest-to-goodness growth plan in place by announcing “a bold and new-age Budget”
The Justice BN Srikrishna Committee drafted a tough data protection law in 2018. It included the right to confirmation and access and data portability. Why has it been hanging fire since then?
Whatever may be the outcome of the Senate trial to impeach Donald Trump, the president has had his comeuppance. There is no way he can obliterate the legacy of shame which will his personal hallmark.
Yes, we do indeed—as the science appears to indicate—have the weapon to beat the pandemic into submission. But it will take a while before we learn how best to use it most effectively and which segments of the human race we need to protect.
When I started penning this week’s editorial on the surging farmers’ agitation sweeping across the land, I had an eerie feeling that I had encountered the words and phrases and analytical flourishes bubbling inside my head somewhere before and not that long ago.