LETTER TO MY YOUNGER SELF

The idea of writing a cheerless letter to you does not much commend itself to me, but I know that, with regard to understanding others, you exceed many of your peers. You appear to have the keen percipience required to see through attempts by others to conceal their sadness, and more importantly, the willingness to

CONTROVERSY ON KANGANA’S STATEMENT: IS SHE REALLY WRONG?

The controversy is oriented around her apparent statement that what India received in 1947 was “bheekh” and true independence was won in 2014. To express my immediate thoughts, I think she is only partially right. And we must take care not to reduce conversations on this issue to the emotional platitudes of, “This is an

THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW BY D.P. O’CONNELL — A REVIEW

A cursory reading of history would suffice to learn that the contemporary fervour of global collaboration, the emphasis on resolution of such problems as transcend national boundaries and suchlike, may be owed to a sunburst of moral enlightenment that charged world leaders after the grotesquery of World War II. Some analysts such as the late

INTERNATIONAL LAW: LAW OR NOT LAW?

It might not forthwith be evident why the nature of international law should be a debate at all. By this third decade of the twenty-first century, given the existence aplenty of literature on the expectations of a global village that animated thinkers with the onset of globalization, as well as consequent disillusionments owing to the oftentimes