Tagore firmly believed that independence from the British, in itself, would be meaningless and merely lead to replacing a foreign oppressor with home-grown ones as long as Indians stayed mired in superstition, ritualism, caste ism and such other ims. This belief made him strongly oppose Gandhi’s phi...

Those were the ‘ catastrophic ’ words which were uttered by the naïve Maulana Noor-ul-Huda on the phone just a few minutes before the take off aboard his Emirates flight on Wednesday which promoted the Delhi Police not only to offload him from the aircraft at the IGI Airport but also book him under ...

CALL TO ACTION Final year Students Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! We are under attack from the repressive tyrannical Bar Council. All of us who have worked so hard over five years of law sweating it out at internships, writing papers, winning moots, doing summer courses and what no...

Male Rapes – Some Myths, Statistics, True Incidents and Legal Insight A True Story Is Rape attempted only on females? I would request you to think again. Male rapes are not fiction created in novels and movies. What happened in Shawshank Redemption can happen to anyone at any place. Shikhar (name ch...

Its official now that we are going to have a caste based census this time after a gap of 80 years. Caste is an inescapable reality of Indian society. Supporters of caste enumeration argue that census categories merely reflect existing classifications, and that only the census can provide the figures...

on the lines of “legalpoet” i thought to post something poetic.. so, at first an acknowledgment to him.. Now here it goes … *** Capitalism * ki duniya me hum profit aise kamate hain , Sahmat hokar apas me hum, khud ka kanoon banate hain. Koi contract banana ko jo sabse jyada jaruri hai, Party do com...

When the judge pronounced Kasab guilty, the tv reporters and agency reporters rushed to the doors of the court! They fought like cats to be out first and break the news! One poor friend of mine actually got bumped in the head by a metal detector, which tilted with the people running out unthinkingly...

Kasab may have been the lone gunman to have survived from the lot of 10 terrorists who entered India by the sea route to create a havoc in the city. But is sending him to the gallows the right route to adopt? I firmly believe that anyone who attacks my nation deserves to be slaughtered, as was the f...

Till now the law students must be aware about the proposed bar examinations in India. After going through both sides of arguments (law students v bar council), it seems both have their respective share of merits. The final year law students are somewhat apprehensive about the bar examinations. They ...

im sorry. didnt mean to annoy anyone. [Originally a short blog entry from a student hating law school, which was deleted a short while late. For readers’ information so the comments are not just on an orphan post, we have pasted the original below again. -Ed “national law unis are SO over rated. the...

SCBA Elections are being held on May 7th, 2010. It would be great to discuss people’s thoughts/views on how the SCBA should move forward this year. Clearly, a lot of trust has to be re-built and greater transparency and accountability needs to be reinstated. So please do share your ideas and thought...

OPEN LETTER TO CHAIRMAN, BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA Dear Mr. Subramaniam, Recent media reports(Hindustan Times, 03/05/10) suggest that the Bar Council of India is introducing a qualifying bar examination from September,2010. We are writing this mail to draw your attention to some of the concerns of final ...

The ever-enlightening Wikipedia tells us that the phrase “ Face value” is the value of a coin, stamp or paper money, as printed on the coin, stamp or bill itself by the minting authority. While the face value usually refers to the true value of the coin, stamp or bill in question (as with circulatio...

A dead body was found in a remote village of Madhya Pradesh. It had been discovered in a well after seven days of the death of the deceased. It was in a heinous condition and the people were even scared to look at it. The matter was reported to the police. The constable went running to the house of ...

27 th April, 2010 9.20 A.M. Court of the Metropolitan Magistrate. Punctuality being the virtue of the Bored, Chandi Agreywal, LLM, reaches courtroom no 12 situate in a huge palatial Brit built building tastelessly modified in the interests of justice. The measured steps on the near empty corridors w...

Soon you will have the census enumerator knocking your door! The massive exercise involving a billion plus people has finally begun! But this time the modus operandi would be little different! The surveyor can knock your door even in the early morning or late in the evening unlike last year when you...

It happened in the middle of a particularly stressful assignment. There I was, sitting at my laptop, at the desolate hour of 2.20 AM, when I decided. Enough. Nyet. Nimph. Nope. No More. I’d had it. And before I knew it …. I was ….. Composing Poetry. Yes, you read that right. I was spewing down line ...

The first one dates back to the first date of hearing of the landmark decision of Kesavananda Bharati by the Hon’ble Supreme Court***.*** The legendary, Mr. Palkhiwala, who then was a young lawyer rose to argue the matter before the largest ever constituted Bench in the Supreme Court. Since thirteen...

NALSAR, like any other law school worth its salt, comes with its own bundle of ridiculous neuroses. What would be special about a place where the machinery gears towards making things convenient for you ? Of course, there’s inconvenience, and then there’s evil. The college’s system of surprise tests...

Crazy fast writing big books Only three more days to bash out prize-winning fiction for the NUJS fiction writing competition , which closes on Sunday midnight (18 April). The theme for this year: “Choose one of the five famous fiction novels (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/Robinson Crusoe/Five Point Someon...