Harini Calamur's Writings
My column for DNA last week Land Scam. Gas Scam. Spectrum Scam. Water Scam. Coal Scam. Forest Scam. Stamp Paper scam. CWG scam. Whatever the scam be, at the centre of it, is the ownership, control and distribution of scarce resources and…
Shubhashish asks some tough questions on how the tareeq pe tareeq mode of functioning in courts is eroding & corroding sectors. This is cross posted on his blog. and it has been reposted here without a single correction of a comma, a…
A Panel of Supreme Court Judges (no less) has observed during a hearing on corruption: "The only way to rid the country of corruption is to hang a few of you on the lamp post. The law does not permit us to…
…by our esteemed Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has held that unlike the charge of attempt to murder, the Indian Penal Code does not recognise the charge of attempt to rape. Rape is said to have been committed only if a man…
Of all the forms of State so far, the modern Republic is the only one based on the consent of civil society. We are all supposedly participants in the state. And we abbrogate a lot of our responsibilities vis-a-vis the society we…