New Book: Goods And Services Tax - Constitutional Law and Policy

Dear Readers,

At the outset I must thank you all for your esteemed patronage of this blog. What had started as a humble experiment will grow into such a huge family was much beyond my initial estimate.

You would pardon me for the long delay in the posts. However that was on account of various professional commitments of mine. In particular, and I am pleased to inform this to you, perhaps the biggest engagement of mine in near past has successfully come through. 

Titled as 'Goods and Services Tax: Constitutional Law and Policy', my book has been published by leading law book publisher of India i.e. the Eastern Book Company.

Besides being dedicated to the appraisal of the Constitutional Amendment Act which set the constitutional background for ushering Goods and Services Tax in India, one entire part of the book focuses on examination of the concepts upon which GST in India is based.

The forward has been written by Justice S.B. Sinha (former judge, Supreme Court of India) and the book has been pre-reviewed by various Senior Advocates including the Attorney General of India.

The other details are available at https://www.ebcwebstore.com/product_info.php?products_id=99022062. I hope the contents of the book will find your approval and as usual I will get your esteemed patronage for this recent endeavour. 

Three Years of Law-in-Perspective

December 20, 2007; the day when this blog hosted its first post. Meant to convey ideas and analysis of laws, in the three years of its making this Law-in-Perspective has changed its template twice and added different gadgets but the essence remains the same. Now available and even receiving considerable attention on facebook and twitter, this blog now has some serious followers if the feedback is any guide. However the thrust remains the same even today; to dissect and understand the nuances of law in a manner and language understandable to one and all.

One conspicuous change though is our reliance or rather insistence to post more of cases (with their extracts and links to full texts) since the origin days where the thrust was on discussion. In fact it was even pointed out that this implies a shift as a platform of thought to a mere information sharing tool. However we differ in the survey. Law is not just a discipline of study. It is also a tool for empowerment. Further judges work on a collaborative platform when they take cue from earlier decisions to refine the outlook of a particular proposition and thus expand the understanding, which we terms as jurisprudence. Thus, in our view, it is not just apt  but also befitting our quest for legal understanding to reflect upon the prevailing notions in the words of the administrators themselves. 

In these three years we have been the front-runners in a number of avenues in as much we have commented on live issues, posted the first on some of the major developments in legal circles, written on a number of branches of law, been at the recipient end of a number of plagiarism-attempts (as our avid readers have been diligent in informing us) and have been criticized time and again for our views. However like a elephant which takes all in its stride while walking through a crowded city, we have continued to post. Some of the original contributors have abandoned the bandwagon but the show goes on. The increasing number of daily visitors and subscribers is only a sweet reminder to us that much is of the legal developments is of interest for the common folk.


We have had secret admirers and our eyes and ears in the market but overall which keep us going is the insatiable appetite of our readers and the equally inexhaustible avenues in law for us to write upon. We have however, only one dissatisfaction. Our readers have remain content with what we have written on. Our intellectual dimensions have not been challenged to the extent of its fullest involvement as we have not been subjected to tormenting requests to write upon on issues suggested by our readers. We can, nonetheless, only wait for this dream to come true. And till then, continue to fill in with topics we comfortably deal in.


And finally, a Happy Birthday for our three-year-old kid blog. :)

The blog revamped !!!

Taking note of a number of suggestions which this blog has received since the culmination of this attempt to spread the message on law more than two years back, I decided to shed the reigns and adopt a new look for the blog. Accordingly, from a strong black background we have moved to a light sky-bluish background for this blog. Removing the not-so-necessary gadgets - to make the webpage lighter and easier to load - I have tried to maintain and continue with the essence and the substance while the form may have changed. 

In this process, to say the least for them, I thank the followers and readers whose intrigue for knowledge and information on law issues continues to strengthen our resolve to keep updating them with the bit of information of LAW which I always refer to the enlightening and kindling light for the curious soul. In the last two years of this blog, the blog has had over twenty thousand visitors, over 150 regular watchers and innumerable friends and well-wishers who continue to inspire by a word in person or through their commendations on the blog or the web-pages it hosts on social networking sites. But then the quest I have undertaken, doesn't stop at this. This just a beginning and 'I have miles to go before I sleep'. 

If knowledge is empowering, and power carries the ability to mould opinions and command changes in behaviour, then the knowledge of law is definitely the way to go for the like-minded citizens to ensure that the society they strive to become habitable, attains that civilized status in an appreciable way. To say of just one law - the Right to Information Act - as having brought to terms so many erring public servants and ensuring that they work in the correct perspective and a time bound manner, one can only imagine with joy the wonders of a system where the dictates of an enforced legal system brings our society to be governed by the idealized canons of justice of the Dharama as well call it.

I am aware that these very high aims that we attempt and aspire for but then unless we aim we will never reach. I am sure that the motivation and assistance available would only increase to ensure that the attempt to attain the high ideals continues till a satisfactory outcome is attained. So here we go ... striving for the best ... !!!

Law in Perspective: The whys and how ...

Well, this is the first post of this new blog I have created on 'Law in Perspective'. The aim, as evident from the title itself, is to analyze legal issues and content with a perspective more or less critical but also with pooling in information for the readers and allowing them to frame opinions independently of the posts or the surrounding media hypes.

I would try not to make it a fully professional blog as the positioning I am desirous of giving this blog is amidst the lay-man who are conscious of the issues but not fully informed to take a view on them, instead of positioning the posts for a professional lawyer or a seasoned law-man, who is too engrossed and affiliated with an organization to have an independent view of his own.

Initially I would be taking a cue from my previous blog, which I would also keep updating, and bring the legal topics discussed there to this blog and later on start new posts from this blog afresh, with the other blog being solely for random thoughts, as the name goes.

So here I go.
[Thanks for the inspiration Abhinav].