Category: Rohit Rao

Law and Plain English

Oh! what a tangled web we weave when we lawyers begin to speak! –  Sir Walter Scott would appreciate this modification The language of the law can be and is often so complicated that the ‘common man’ is left grappling to understand its meaning. Why does the commonly spoken and understood English language transform into…
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Why one can’t compare Gandhiji’s Civil Disobedience Movement with the Shaheenbagh Anti CAA protest.

Gandhiji and his followers were protesting against laws passed by a Ruler who was not elected by the people of India; whereas the Anti CAA protest was essentially against the democratically elected Government’s legislation. The disobedience of Gandhiji was a necessity because there was neither political or judicial recourse to challenge the Rowlatt Act; whereas…
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FUTURE OF RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION IN KARNATAKA

The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (“KERC”) has issued a discussion paper dated 24th August 2020 inter alia proposing to discontinue the banking facility extended to solar, mini-hydel, and wind power projects henceforth, for both REC and Non-REC route-based projects. The proposal is twofold- a) to not provide any banking facility for such power projects and…
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