Vivek's legal notes

  The Court observed that Kakkad had placed on record documentary proof substantiating the allegations against Khan restraining him from approaching his land. To substantiate the allegations that Khan had committed encroachment and violated the Forest Act and Matheran Eco ­Sensitive notification, Kakkad placed applications which had been made to the concerned forest department and the Collector along with the annexures and show ­cause notices issued by the forest department, the order recorded. "The defendant (Kakkad) contended that, he is a whistle­blower to the illegal acts done by the plaintiff (Khan) and he made imputations in public interest by taking reasonable precautions by producing documentary material in support of the same.  Therefore, at preliminary stage, I find the defendant's plea of justification is more probable than the prima facie case of the plaintiff, "  the judge reasoned. With these observations, the Court concluded that no case had been made out f...

I watched #TheKashmirFiles yesterday after support from our PM. Thanks for sharing the story of injustice to Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir valley in 1990 and beyond. I think after doing such stupendous work, there was responsibility on you to share "morals of the story" and not just the story.  You should have lighted the path with the change and solutions needed to prevent such incidents from recurring instead of leaving it open minded.  I understand, as an artist, you just share the art and leave the interpretation and solutions to complex problems to people responsible for it like administrators, advisors etc.  But neither those people care about a movie nor the general public who get most influenced by it are equally intelligent and mature.  People are going to draw all the wrong conclusions and it can worsen the situation in the country instead of improving it.  We can have more problems and lesser solutions because of your work because you missed the l...