[Related: Advice for Prospective Libertarian Law Students] Suggested reading list compiled for my niece before attending Louisiana State University law school (a civil law/Roman law state): Karl Llewellyn, The Bramble Bush http://quidprolaw.com/?p=2159 (Llewellyn’s Classic Guide to Law Study and 1L Advice) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law (http://www.general-intelligence.com/library/commonlaw.pdf or Law
मोटेरा स्टेडियम का नाम बदलना दुनिया के इतिहास में- ख़ासकर उपनिवेशवाद के ख़िलाफ़ संघर्ष कर आज़ाद हुए मुल्कों में, ऐसा पहला उदाहरण है, जहां किसी स्वाधीनता सेनानी का नाम मिटाकर एक ऐसे सियासतदां का नाम लगाया गया हो, जिसका उसमें कोई भी योगदान नहीं रहा हो. Courtesy – नरेंद्र मोदी स्टेडियम.
THE STATE LOOKS THE OTHER WAY ONLY WHEN RIGHT-WING FOOTSOLDIERS TARGET INNOCENT PEOPLE AND PROVOKE VIOLENCE. A foreigner, returning from a trip to the Third Reich, When asked who ruled there, answered: Fear… The Regime, Bertolt Brecht. Those occasions on which judicial verdicts bring cheer are getting rarer. As everyone who supports gender justice rejoices … Continue reading If Comment is Free, Why are Dissenters Being Locked Up? →
Recently, on fieldwork in a peri-urban panchayat in Kerala devastated by illegal large-scale granite quarrying, a local resident pointed us to what looked like a hillock. It was covered with vegetation — and flowers of a pleasant lilac — which made a very pretty sight — and to the naked eye, looked as solid as … Continue reading Molehills from mountains and other stories from kerala →
Widows and relatives of farmers who were believed to have killed themselves over debt, at Tikri border. Image courtesy Indian Express Let me tell you what the Delhi Police knows. And I do not mean the abstract entity called Delhi Police. I mean every single IPS officer and every constable involved in carrying out the … Continue reading Toolkits of democracy and a paranoid Hindu Rashtra →
Guest post by RAJINDER CHAUDHARY दिल्ली पहुँचने के बाद और 26 जनवरी से पहले, ऊपरी तौर पर सरकार ने किसान आन्दोलन की राह में कोई रोड़े नहीं अटकाए और किसान आन्दोलन को दबाने की रणनीति दबी-ढकी थी। परन्तु अब सरकार खुल कर किसान आन्दोलन को दबाने का प्रयास कर रही है। न केवल आन्दोलनकारियों का … Continue reading किसान आंदोलन और नए कंपनी राज के खतरे – अब बाक़ी देश को आगे
Behavioural psychologists say hatred and fear are two sides of the same coin. That explains the Hindu Right obsession with Gandhi and Godse.
Guest post by RAJINDER CHAUDHARY कई लोगों को यह गलतफहमी है कि नए कृषि कानूनों से केवल किसान और वो भी केवल पंजाब के किसान परेशान हैं. दिल्ली की सिंघु सीमा से आन्दोलन स्थल के फोटो जिनमें सिक्ख किसानों की भरमार होती है, को देख कर यह गलतफहमी किसी भी अनजान व्यक्ति को हो सकती.
Over the past one year, I have been trying to make a college in Kerala – in a women’s college in Kerala– take some action against one of their faculty members who rained abuse on me publicly, including a public assertion about his possession of a penis, at a seminar in which I was an … Continue reading The gender between men’s legs and other learnings from a college in kerala →
A little bemused, I heard a writer addressing the farmers’ protests recently say in all solidarity and sincerity – “What we have been writing about for long, you have demonstrated at ground level.” On the contrary, I believe that this massive and electrifying protest against the farm laws is at the cutting edge of political … Continue reading A lesson in political theory from farmers’ unions →
