Uneven Democracy : The Cry from Chhattisgarh
Anand Patwardhan Nov 19, 2009 interacts: 45Our democracy is patchy. Our democracy is uneven. Even in our cities it is the experience of every ordinary citizen that law is not applied
Justice and Just Society
Pramod Khilery Oct 7, 2009 interacts: 7Just is what is right and democracy allows the right to be called wrong if it is said so by maximum majority.
Behind Closed Doors: Archives and Archiving in Pakistan
Nadeem Tarar Sep 24, 2009 interacts: 5Despite the fact that constitution of Pakistan recognises the access to public information, various laws on the statutory books, such as Official Secret Act of
It is Time: The Women’s Right Movement in Pakistan
Taji M Sep 4, 2009 interacts: 74It should not take a gang rape or burning alive of a woman to make our media take notice and our bigwigs to make pronouncements
My Fair, Goon? “By Jove: He Nearly Did it….”
Afrah Jamal Aug 27, 2009 interacts: 2Here lies Rehman – Day Job: local Godfather; often mistaken for the Fairy Godfather. Primary residence: the Hood – Lyari. Forwarding address (had he lived):
Minorities and Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan: A Legal Perspective
Nauman Asghar Aug 23, 2009 interacts: 22In Pakistan, the blasphemy law dates back to original 1860 Indian Penal Code in which Articles 295 and 298 inserted keeping in view the religious
Sonia Sotomayor: Justice at Last?
Beej K Singh Jul 28, 2009 interacts: 5Sonia Sotomayor has waited a long time for her current nomination – and the country has waited much longer to see a Hispanic Judge in
How Pakistan Killed My Father
Saeed Shiekh Jul 8, 2009 interacts: 17That boy perishing away in hospital due to the fake medicines could have been another Allama Iqbal. That girl who died because no one attended
Peace for People and People of Peace
Saeed Shiekh Jul 2, 2009 interacts: 12This is all I ask after paying my taxes. A safe haven for my home. Smiles on my children faces. Halal, hard earned food, and
Child Labour in Pakistan
Rizwan Ahmed Jun 10, 2009 interacts: 3Child Labour is a complex problem which demands a range of solutions. There is no better way to prevent child Labour than to make education
YES, we can!
Muhammad Akhtar Apr 19, 2009 interacts: 8All great transformations are started by a small minority at a stage when there are skeptics dominating the optimists. We have to believe that there
Section 144
kashkin dabruski Mar 19, 2009 interacts: 1
From the avenues of power
Deployed they section 144,
To stop and to arrest,
The human conscience
And
How Sacred is Life ?
Shantanu Dutta Jan 22, 2009 interacts: 7If the government accepts the recommendation of legal reform submitted by Kerala Law Reforms Commission, Kerala will become India's first state to legalize euthanasia.
Human Trafficking: The Great Commodity Exchange
Shantanu Dutta Jan 19, 2009 interacts: 3While no comprehensive study of forced and bonded labour can ever be completed, there are estimates that the trafficking “industry? touches 20 to 65 million
Ajmal Amir Kasab – Right to Defence?
Shridhar Naik Dec 15, 2008 interacts: 69In a solid show of patriotic zeal and indignance, the Bombay Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court Bar Association has passed a resolution restraining its members from taking
One Hour From Midnight
Parakkad Varma Dec 12, 2008 interacts: 4If the people clamour for more stringent laws, the government is bound to heed. After all, no political party can be trusted to resist a
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