Irfan Engineer, Dec 1, 2012:Deccan Herald The march of history has been from more brutal and violent societies to more humane, inclusive and less violent societies; and from authoritarian to democratic states. The objective of punishment… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Garga Chatterjee, DOWN TO EARTH Date: Dec 15, 2012 The veil of civilisation and Hurricane Sandy Garga Chatterjee We live in a world filled with theories of human nature, or more correctly, theories of human nature that explain differences between people…. Continue Reading →
Manoj Mitta | November 2012, Times Crest The higher the penalty, the greater the rigor that the courts are expected to display in arriving at the decision. It is however hard to apply this principle, ironically enough, to the highest… Continue Reading →
Guardian.co.uk Overwhelming majority votes to recognise Palestine as non-member state as US and Israel are left to condemn decision Palestinians celebrate in Ramallah after the general assembly voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member state. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images… Continue Reading →
Over two weeks ago, many of you – in fact a group of a hundred women – signed on to an appeal letter addressed to Selvi Jayalalitha, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, and the Chairperson of the National Commission on… Continue Reading →
Deepu Sebastian Edmond : IEChaibasa, Thu Nov 29 2012 Six activists of the Jharkhand statehood movement, who were sent to jail on Saturday by a Railway Magistrate in a 1991 case, were on Monday bailed out from the Chaibasa jail. Xavier… Continue Reading →
Ahmedabad,Nov 27, DNA A local court on Tuesday ruled that Zakia Jafri, whose husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Zafri was killed in Gujarat riots, has lost the right to file protest petition against the SIT report, giving a clean… Continue Reading →
Wanton Lawlessness, Outlook The Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case of 1996 shows horrendous police culpability — if the court had not noticed the ‘casualness and slipshod approach’ of the police, three persons might have been wrongly executed by the state… Continue Reading →
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