July 25, 2009
Annual confidential reports, with the passage of time, are no longer annual or confidential, or true evaluation reports. A number of All-India officers find their annual reports recorded after a delay of years and years while the service and political superiors sit over them to hold extra-legal strings vis-Ă -vis the officer reported upon. Confidential they […]
Read MoreMay 6, 2009
Rather than striking at the roots of the problem, there is of late an increasing trend to render superficial legal remedies and lip service to deep rooted socio-economic challenges. Instead of embarking upon an effective systemic correction, knee jerk responses to the tragic reality of female feticide are akin to applying cosmetic remedies to a […]
Read MoreMay 6, 2009
The divine word pertains to the world of the heart and the soul, and not the letter of the law which suffers mortality either at the hands of the selective investigating agencies, or slips into a coma amidst jugglery of eloquent words performed in the courts by the master court-craftsmen. Any civil society hates moral […]
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