Ashok Agrwaal

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Advocate/ Attorney at Law
Member, Delhi High Court Bar Association
Member of the governing board of THE OTHER MEDIA, a New Delhi (India) based NGO
Member of the Committee for Information and Initiative on Punjab, a Delhi (India) based group of human rights activists
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Paradigm of Impunity: Two Months in the Life of the 20 Grenadiers, Economic and Political Weekly (2007)

This Article is extracted from my larger report on the anatomy of State impunity in...

Bandipora Redux: A Tale From Two Insurgencies, Tehelka (2004)

This artixcle is based upon my work on State impunity in the context of the...

STATE REPRESSION: Behind the Mask of Democracy ..., Combat Law (2002)

There has never been a satisfactory solution to the problem of handling / controlling political...

Books

In Search of Vanished Blood (2008)

Deaths in custody/ disappearance from custody are endemic in India and, have been so throughout...

A Report on The Working of the writ of Habeas Corpus in Kashmir: 1990 - 2005 (Chapter-I, Introduction) (2007)

This report is the first part of a two part study on the functioning of...

A Report on the Working of the writ of Habeas Corpus in Kashmir: 1990 – 2005 (Chapter-II, Methodology) (2007)

This report is the first part of a two part study on the functioning of...

A Report on the Working of the writ of Habeas Corpus in Kashmir: 1990 – 2005 (Chapter-III, The Arrest) (2007)

This report is the first part of a two part study on the functioning of...

A Report on the Working of the writ of Habeas Corpus in Kashmir: 1990 – 2005 (Chapter-IV, The Petitions) (2007)

This report is the first part of a two part study on the functioning of...

A Report on the Working of the writ of Habeas Corpus in Kashmir: 1990 – 2005 (Chapter-V, The Narratives) (2007)

This report is the first part of a two part study on the functioning of...

Contributions to Books

Trivialising Justice: Reservation Under The Rule Of Law, The State of Justice in India : Volume - II; Justice and Law: The Limits of the Deliverables of Law (2009)

The idea for the paper was born out of a consultation called by the Calcutta...

Law's Autonomy, Autonomy, Beyond Kant And Hermenutics (2007)

Like entropy, autonomy exists. As such, the existence of autonomy does not need any law...

Unpublished Papers

Isn’t it Amazing We Survived? Or It’s Not Over Yet, Shorts (2011)

An attempt to understand the world as it is

Maya, Shorts (2011)

A short take on the remarkable notion of Maya

On Precision or The Importance of Riyaz, Shorts (2011)

In an attempt to understand harmony

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF TOURISM OR ABOUT WINNERS AND LOSERS (2011)

Tourism serves not only to edify and titillate and entertain, it also serves to assuage...

Colonised Epistemologies, Unpublished Papers (2008)

A polemical piece

Sustainable Futures, Unpublished Papers (2008)

A brief note on the sustainability of the current world view

Entropy, Random-1 (2007)

A brief take on order and disorder in modern times.

Other

The Case of Abdul Gani Najar (2007)

The case discussed here is part of the Kashmir report. I have pasted it here...

The Case of Ghulam Qadir Pandith (2007)

The case discussed here is part of the Kashmir report. I have pasted it here...

The Case of Khizir Mohammad Bhat (2007)

The case discussed here is part of the Kashmir report. I have pasted it here...

The Case of Nazir Gojar (2007)

The case discussed here is part of the Kashmir report. I have pasted it here...