Category: Human Rights and Legal Issues

466 years of backlog, junk food and over-reach

Nanopost of the day… …in which a High Court with 466 years of backlog of cases will now also monitor sale of “junk food” near schools and other educational institutes, potentially worsening (and adding several...

Open Letter on Dams and Development

Dear All: Below excerpts from a remarkable “ Open Letter To Arundhati Roy“ (from more than 12 years ago) by Gail Omvedt.  What is remarkable about this piece is that Gail is far from an armchair critic....

J&K: 2 decades of violence & 2 myths

Many of you must have read/heard about these two fairly “popular” myths about J&K: “Kashmir is the ‘most heavily militarized zone’ in the world” or its variations: “There is an Indian soldier for every...

Forget Right to Justice; Just Do What is Right

..or how Justice delayed is justice denied. Some of you must have read the recent news-report of a bill proposed to be tabled in Parliament to ensure “time-bound justice for citizens“. The bill has...

The Curious Case of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar

Most of you must have read the news a few days back about President Pratibha Patil rejecting the mercy plea of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar – the first such “decision” in more than 10 years....