Human Rights in India, as Others See It A G Noorani IT may be galling to our pride that the Norwegian government should keep vigil on the state of human rights in India and pronounce its verdict on...
Civil Liberties
Rights of Foreigners A G Noorani A COUNTRY'S respect for human rights is best judged by its treatment of dissenters within its own fold and of aliens on its territory. The Constitution of India...
Not many know that there exists on the Indian statute book a law passed in 1872, in the highnoon of British Raj, which conferred on the citizen a right of access to public documents. Can you believe...
the Union government is spending and is going to spend, will be contributed by men and women from all over the country; sooner or later, they may come to resent these payments while many of their...
Aspects of the Right to Life A G Noorani A SPEECH delivered in Bombay on February 22 this year by the Chief Justice of India, Justice P N Bhagwati, merits attention. He said that the Supreme Court...
Calcutta Diary AM NINETEEN EIGHTYSIX. A few weeks more, and it would be exactly fifty years since the Spanish Civil War. Fifty years ago, as summertime descended on Europe, young people all over...
India, Torture and UN A G Noorani WHY is the Government of India non- cooperative with the UN on issues of human rights? On March 13, 1985 the UN Commission on Human Rights appointed for one year a...
Muslims and Civil Liberties A G Noorani ON March 17, one of India's leading political scientists, Rajni Kothari, said at a public meeting in New Delhi that there was a systematic attempt by the...
Paying for Legislative Misconduct A G Noorani ABUSE of power is a well recognised cause of action. It is a tort, a civil wrong, for which the offender is liable in damages to the person he has...
Two Reports on India A G Noorani TWO reports on aspects of Indian citizens' rights deserve careful study. One was published by Amnesty International on January 29. It is entitled "Some reports...
It is over a fortnight since Seema Mustafa, Sankarshan Thakur, Sondeep Shankar and Pravcen Jain were brutally assaulted in Kandu Khera and detained illegally, thereafter, in a remote village 37 km...
October 1984, but performance was lower due to technical difficulties. Production between January and June 1985, however, was 2,650 tonnes against 938 tonnes during the same period in the previous...
of services in employment increased much more strikingly, in the US from 61.8 peT cent to 66,7 per cent and in Britain from 54.5 per cent to 63.5 per cent. No doubt, these figures show clearly that...
Playing with Passports A G Noorani IF the Government of India could play with the passport of a well known personality like Swami Agnivesh the way it has, what protection can an ordinary citizen...
ble in many other states as well. With Rajiv Gandhi we lave an explicitly class-oriented government in power. In Nehru's days and also to an extent during Indira Gandhi's times, rhetoric of social...
