Work after a long holiday
An enigma as old as the world is, what came first, the chicken or the egg? There have been many more unresolved questions, like for instance ,what poet Kannadasan would pose through his lyrics:Kodi...
View ArticleNo more trials for martyrdom!
World over, bomb blast trials seem to have one thing in common – long gestation between events and trials. The serial bomb blasts at Mumbai took place on 21st April 1993 and the cases in the Special...
View ArticlePrice for donation of human organ, why not?
Ever since transplantation of human organs from live donors became possible, every living person is a potential property. The most important component of property is its transferability. In a country...
View ArticleTruth at what price?
Between life and death, it is the latter that hogs more news. The qualities of even a person unknown are epitomized in a hyperbole more after a person departs than while living. The cause of death...
View ArticleThe several Avatars
Somehow we allow ourselves to be driven in our fancies about what we shall be doing by following the lead actors in the tinsel world of cinema. They have media and money at their command to capture the...
View ArticleOh Men! Don't compete with women for motherhood!
The world is not any the less equal only because men and women are made differently, - the ways their biological differences make them think, look and behave. These differences themselves have assigned...
View ArticleShare your thought for a new legislation
A popular English daily lists out several strange laws legislated in efforts to maintain law and order in diverse legal regimes across the world. They range from legislation that makes illegal for...
View ArticleCivil Disputes and Police interventions
What is the face of Police that is familiar to you? Do you see it as the protector against wrong and a punctilious enforcer of law and order? Or, you have been exposed to only an ugly corrupt...
View ArticleThe abortion debate
The recent reported dilemmaHaresh and Niketa Mehta had a reason to grieve. Scientific (medical) tests on Niketa showed that the child in her womb had serious congenital deformities. They did not want...
View ArticleHuman Rights in Madras High Court
1. Human rights, as being fundamental to life and civil liberties, as guaranteed through Constitution and other laws, when put through the prism of Court machinery obtain a refraction of diverse hues...
View ArticleSurrogacy, the new Indian scene
Times of India, dated 18th November 2008 reports that an Israeli gay couple Yonatan and Omer Gher had a child, which they named as Evyatar meaning ‘more fathers’ in Hebrew, through a surrogate mother...
View ArticleMagic remedies and Indian law
A public interest litigation in Punjab & Haryana High Court is reported to have been filed ‘to curb the menace of tantriks promising magical cures within minutes’ through advertisements in...
View ArticleEuthanasia, the death-shot
Life and death are no longer in the realm of only god’s activity. Or, at least, so it seems. Medical science, through In virto fertilization (IVF procedures) brings to reality certain aspects of human...
View ArticleConsumer Protection through Class action
Exsiting legal frameworkAll legal regimes across the globe provide for legal actions by redressal of grievances addressing commonality of rights affecting a large body of persons. The homogeneity of...
View ArticleThe venerable footwear
On 14th December 2008, an Iraqi TV journalist, Muntadhar al-Zeidi hurled his shoe at President George Bush at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, saying that “this is from the widows, the orphans and those...
View ArticleDeclaration of assets by judges
Pompeia was perhaps a terribly wronged woman. In 62 BC she hosted the festival of the Bona Dea ("good goddess"), to which no man was permitted to attend. However a young patrician named Publius Clodius...
View ArticleRomanticising Death
There is a certain thrill about the fantasy that we indulge in refusing to acknowledge the death of certain class of revolutionary leaders and celebrities. It is just not a sense of disbelief but a...
View ArticleMotor Insurance - New Imperatives for Reforms
The business of motor insuranceIn all countries across the globe, motor insurance constitutes around 60% of business of all insurance companies. The public interest element is still relevant, even as...
View ArticleHomosexuality - Relevance of religious or cultural views
High Court judgment de-criminalises homosexuality Law is what is legislated; law is also what the courts declare. In the constitutional scheme, the Union and the States have distinct spheres of...
View ArticleLitigations after death
Bury the body or cremate it, whatever way you may want, it may be yet a matter of personal preference, but normally, the religion that the person was born to, dictates the choice. The integrity of the...
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