Musings of a modern guy

Former attorney-general, Alberto Gonzales was under fire for a number of his statement and actions when he was acting as the Chief Legal Officer of the US. He was the one who authorized a specific movement of the Government towards the legality of torture for getting information, much greater ease of wire-tapping and spying on […]

For the past several days, the Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has been facing a torrid time in relation to the holding of Indian-born doctor Dr. Mohamed Haneef for investigation related to the attempted terrorist attacks in Britain. He has been accused of stubbornness, unwillingness to admit a mistake, and willfully holding a person on […]

The fight over who is a terrorist or not is a serious issue. In the current situation, if you catch suspects, and if they are Muslims involved in suspicious activities, thoughts will always move to whether the person is guilty or not. And that is the crux of the matter. Either people are caught in […]

Dictators are not used to being told ‘no, especially not dictators who control all the levers of power. So it was not too surprising that one fine day a few months back, President and General Musharraf called the Chief Justice of the Pakistani Supreme Court and told him to resign. He has some procedural issues […]

In a sign of how seriously China is taking the recent challenges to its images of providing good, quality and low cost items, it has executed a former top official responsible for the quality of food and drugs.
In the recent past, China has been hit by bans in the United States on many of its […]

In the past, the US Supreme Court has always had some amount of splits between the justices, and rare were the decisions that were given by a unanimous verdict. However, with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor normally playing the swinging vote, the previous Supreme Courts have tended to be on the liberal side, must to the […]