-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Birla ho ya Tata, Ambani ho ya Bata Sabne apne chakkar mein des ko hai kaata Are humre hi khoon se inka Engine chale dhakadhak (Be it Birla or Tata, Ambani or Bata Everyone has exploited the nation for their own benefit Their engine runs on our blood) The names of some of India's top corporate houses may seem to rhyme well in this Bollywood ballad, but its drift, insinuating that business groups like...
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Raising the bar for the legal profession -NR Madhava Menon
-The Hindu Continued self-education is indispensable to honing the skills of lawyers in emerging areas of practice and to their social relevance in a changing world The Indian legal profession has grown over a short period of less than 50 years to become the world’s largest and most influential in the governance of the country. At the same time, it reflects the diversity of Indian society, its caste structure, inequalities and urbanised...
More »A short history of Indian freedom of speech-Kian Ganz
Between 2009 and February 2011, at least 14 people were charged with sedition in India London: The typical citizen could be forgiven for fearing that the world’s largest democracy is hurtling towards George Orwell’s 1984 rather than 2013. In late August the government’s department of telecommunications, citing the “communal tensions” around Assam, blocked more than 300 individual web addresses, including the Twitter profile pages of some journalists. It also ordered a limit...
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-The Hindu ‘Security forces’ positions were being watched by collaborators across border’ Slamming the electronic media for its live coverage of the 26/11 terrorist attacks, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that by doing so the Indian TV channels did not serve the national interest or any social cause. A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and C.K. Prasad, while confirming the death sentence on the prime accused, Ajmal Kasab, said the “reckless coverage…...
More »Learning from a controversy-Sukhdeo Thorat
-The Hindu The insights in the NCERT cartoon report can help to make the curriculum and the classroom more inclusive While the NCERT textbooks report has generated much heat, it has also shed positive light on the issue. It is time to reflect on this side of the debate and deal with the questions it raises. The committee’s mandate was to identify educationally inappropriate materials in textbooks and suggest alternatives, if necessary. The...
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