If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court following David Souter’s retirement last month, the first Hispanic woman to be nominated to the post. The nomination process is expected to go through smoothly but not without [...]
April 1st, 2009
Anjali Waghmare not afraid of the Sena
It takes a Waghmare to stand firm against Shiv ‘we-don’t-care-for-due-process’ Sena’s bullying tactics. Does the Sena know how easy it is to subvert the law based on experience hence its refusal to let Kasab stand trial?
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March 17th, 2009
Google Mistrials
Ubiquitous access to the Internet with the help of online tools like Google and Twitter are threatening validity of legal cases leading to “Google mistrials”.
Patrix | Asides, Law, United States, Web 2.0, World Wide Web | No Comments »
February 27th, 2009
What is not Libel or Slander
Remember my post listing ‘reasonable restrictions’ on free speech? It seems that the restriction based on libel or slander also have their own subset of exceptions defining what is and is not libel or slander. No wonder we have one thick Constitution.
Patrix | Asides, Law | 2 Comments »
February 25th, 2009
Restricting Freedom with Excuses of Responsibility
The Indian blogosphere has been discussing the implications of a recent Supreme Court ruling reprimanding a Kerala-based 19-year-old youth for allowing so-called libelous comments on a community he started on Orkut. The plaintiff that was offended was the Shiv Sena who are widely regarded in the Indian political circles as a responsible and reasonable outfit [...]
Patrix | 9rules, DesiPundit, India, Law, Weblogs | 36 Comments »
February 13th, 2009
Preventive Custody – Valid or not?
As much as I detest the actions of the Sri Ram Sene and its head honcho, Pramod Muthalik, I don’t approve of this concept of taking a person into preventive custody. I know it has been used regularly by the police but it presupposes the act of crime and shows the inability of the police [...]
Patrix | 9rules, DesiPundit, Law | 9 Comments »
January 28th, 2009
Muffling a Blogger
The concept of free speech in India can be a prickly affair. A billion souls and I’m sure there are billion opinions to go around. We achieved political freedom in 1947 but the true meaning of an open and democratic society still has not seeped in the Indian psyche; at times even bloggers don’t get [...]
Patrix | 9rules, DesiPundit, India, Media, Weblogs | 27 Comments »
December 12th, 2008
Interrogating a Terrorist
As soon as the news that the Indian security forces had captured one of the terrorists (Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman among other aliases) in the Mumbai attacks alive trickled out, there were umpteen suggestions on how best to extract information from him. None of which included treating him humanely and why should we? Especially when [...]
Patrix | Governance, Law | 4 Comments »
August 14th, 2008
Google India Sued over Blogger’s Identity
The phenomenon of companies threatening bloggers in India is back. This time Google India has been sued by Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects to reveal details of a blogger who wrote against the company’s mines in Mozambique [via]. After failing to obtain the necessary cooperation from Mumbai Police’s Cyber Cell, Gremach moved the High Court [...]
Patrix | India, Law, Weblogs | 2 Comments »
July 2nd, 2008
Being Aware of your Legal Rights via Television
Ash and I are self-professed Law & Order fans although the show is not aimed at our demographic group. Given the umpteen re-runs of the show, there is always a L&O playing during primetime on at least one cable channel (usually USA, TNT, or Bravo). Although originally made for NBC, the show now has original [...]
Patrix | Law, Television, United States | 10 Comments »
Movies I've Watched...
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2009-06-21 15:30
Michael Cera is the only bright spark in an otherwise listless comedy.
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2009-06-10 19:00
Love political movies so loved this one too. Frank Langella plays a terrific Nixon.
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2009-06-05 16:45
Outrageously funny. Not recommended for watching with your kids or parents.
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Crowdsourcing Writer's Block
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