tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87668383544464225822024-03-06T23:04:23.228-08:00Issues of Importance (to me)Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-27748671043262569052024-03-06T23:03:00.000-08:002024-03-06T23:03:25.855-08:00Apps = Enshittification of Internet ServicesMost businesses have rapidly pushed us their apps rather than providing services through their websites. The users have been told that you would get a far more "immersive" experience than a website could ever give. But "hey just give me control over your SMSs, your photos, your videos, your location and of course your ability to control what a website can do through browser controls".These Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-69883699418151217352019-05-25T07:46:00.002-07:002019-05-25T07:46:29.577-07:00The Rise and Importance of Propaganda in Indian Election
The massive win of Narendra Modi even after disastrous handling of the economy has confounded most of the election experts. "It is the economy stupid" is no longer a valid political theory to explain election wins or defeats. Further the scale and breadth of the win despite not fulfilling any of the promises of the first term is even more bewildering. Looks like people have totally forgotten Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-33237069992166083882015-10-03T11:37:00.001-07:002015-10-03T11:37:31.043-07:00"Talvar": Some thoughts on the adaptation of murder mystery
Watched the movie "Talvar", an adaptation of the Aarushi and Hemraj double murder case. Couple of points:
1. Dr Malini that did Narco analysis on the servant is notorious for her unprofessional work. She even had Kaleem confessed to his crime and named all the accomplices in the Mecca Masjid blast. But then courts acquitted them all and Swami Aseemanand confessed to the crime and implicated manySushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-83009484698502642782015-06-09T20:57:00.002-07:002015-06-09T20:58:43.697-07:00Speech to the incoming MBA class
My speech to the incoming students of Symbiosis School of Media and Communications, Bengaluru on 8th June, 2015.
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First of all I am thankful to the Director and the faculty of Symbiosis School
of Media & Communication for inviting me to address the incoming students of
the MBA class. Congratulations to the students and wishing you all success
inSushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-75367754262940496102015-03-01T21:45:00.002-08:002015-03-01T21:45:35.309-08:00On the opportunity of Aam Aadmi Party to grow beyond Delhi
Kejriwal's reservations on AAm Aadmi Party party quickly expanding to other states as Prashant Bhushan wants are valid. It is a publicly funded party and it will have problems in raising funds like it happened after Lok sabha elections. I think Yogendra Yadav approach of having a medium term view and a long term growth plan seems to be much better.
Kejriwal's view of not fighting a single Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-83902247853317150162014-12-21T00:19:00.002-08:002014-12-21T00:19:38.562-08:00Using browser versus app to deliver your services on mobile devices
The full fledged mobile computing devices are far more common these days than the desktops had ever been. The websites are delivering services more to mobile devices than the desktops. Google now claims to get more searches through the mobile devices these days.
Today most websites will ask you to download their app and install on your mobile device. With package managers like "Google Play Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-87986825273440888822014-10-04T01:08:00.001-07:002014-10-04T01:14:32.021-07:00Enigma of missing court judgments in Indian Kanoon
I got a mail from Raghav Das saying that a judgment from Supreme Court related to cow protection State of Gujarat Vs. Mirzapur Moti Kureshi Kassab Jamat & Ors 26th October, 2005 is missing. There is only a dissenting opinion from Justice A Mathur available on the website. The main opinion was indeed missing.
In trying to avoid duplicate judgments from the court, the Indian Kanoon Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-4929884328021003042014-09-16T02:38:00.001-07:002014-09-16T02:38:40.659-07:00Making Indian Kanoon the gold standard for legal research
A new release was rolled out on Sunday in an effort to make Indian Kanoon the gold standard for legal research in India. The release consisted of a lot of user visible changes and includes all changes that were planned in July. While some of these changes are related to improving the infrastructure, most of the changes have come from people complains and the problems they have been facing whileSushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-64474814132819654972014-07-03T07:14:00.001-07:002014-07-03T07:14:22.567-07:00Planned Improvements for the next release
Here is a broad list of changes to Indian Kanoon that I am planning for the next release (hopefully out by July end 2014)
1. Remove duplicate judgment. Many high courts are like Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Orissa and Bombay are publishing the same judgment on different URLs. Perhaps every case number has a new URL even when cases are combined together in a judgment.
2. Improve the judgment layout.Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-73063837716268571792014-06-24T02:41:00.000-07:002014-06-24T02:41:05.136-07:00Indian Kanoon: Search Within Results
Some of my lawyer friends have told me in past that they need a way to "Search Within Results". Consider an example where a person has filed a "child custody" case and he or she is an accused in a separate criminal trial of "attempt to murder". The lawyer wants to know whether the ongoing criminal trial will have a bearing on the "child custody" case or not. The lawyer searches for "child Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-82962668080782627432014-05-02T07:34:00.001-07:002014-05-02T07:44:51.782-07:00Captcha on Patna high court website
To: hcpat-bih@nic.in
I
am founder of
a legal search engine called Indian Kanoon (http://indiankanoon.org)
Indian
Kanoon provides state of art free search and free access to
Indian
court judgments to the common people.
Indian
Kanoon daily crawls different Indian court websites and adds the
set
of updated judgments for Supreme court and high courts to Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-46655939354093195902013-02-12T10:06:00.004-08:002013-02-12T10:11:07.019-08:00Conversation on anonymization of court judgments
[Anonymous]
So why do you spoil invade people's privacy. I don't mind law students
reading about my case but it comes up when anyone googles my name. I've
won the case but I just want it private. Why can't you remove it. What
do you gain by harassing people who have done you no harm!
[Sushant]
If you have read the blog, you would know that court judgments are in
public Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-80622439081364765052012-06-03T19:07:00.000-07:002012-06-03T19:08:43.713-07:00[Un]blocking of indiankanoon.org by judis
To: amishra@nic.in, dash@nic.in
Dear Dr. Shefali and Mrs. Alka,
I am the founder of the website indiankanoon.org that provides free
access to Indian court judgments and state-of-art search facility on
indian legal documents. Many people rely on indiankanoon.org for
retrieving court judgments relevant to their case. More than 10 lakh
people use indiankanoon in just one month.
I just found out Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-9611804599277099962011-04-12T06:15:00.000-07:002011-04-12T06:19:38.900-07:00Karnataka High Court: Problems with the poor quality of uploaded judgmentsTo Karnataka High Court,I run a website called Indian Kanoon http://indiankanoon.org that aggregates judgments from Supreme Court as well as all high courts. It extracts text from all judgments and provides a free state-of-art search functionality.Currently judgments provided by Karnataka High Court on the website http://www.karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in/ are scanned copies of printed text. The Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-81282019550074306232010-12-02T05:31:00.000-08:002011-02-26T02:42:35.583-08:00Unconstitutionality of barricades on public roads in layouts/apartment-complexIn Bangalore, it is very easy to spot a number of layouts where there is an entry road and other roads that connect to various buildings inside it. But you cannot enter! There is a barricade on the entry road and there are private security guards who will inquire you. The inquiry may be as simple as asking your name and purpose to displaying special cards. One question that may come to mind is Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-7800126949063896572010-10-03T03:36:00.001-07:002010-10-03T04:36:35.965-07:00Setting up Streaming Replication and Hot-Standby features of Postgres 9.0 on Indian KanoonPostgres is a database software that powers a large number of production databases around the world including Indian Kanoon. Postgres 9.0 was recently released after more than a year and half of development. The version number was jumped from 8.4 (the previous release) to 9.0 considering the inclusion of two important features namely Streaming Replication and Hot Standby. Streaming replication, Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-76677993253049729022010-08-06T22:00:00.000-07:002010-08-06T22:35:00.537-07:00Media - Be educative and not sensationalDiscussion with Shahab Nayyer:TimesOfIndia article No conviction for mere demand of dowry: Supreme Courtis flatly wrong in the title. The judgment is here - http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1330427/SC has convicted husband for "dowry death" (Section 304B of IPC) and said that there is no solid evidence of harassment from fathe...r/mother-in-law to convict under section 304B or section 498A. You need Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-42541067639228899492010-08-05T06:07:00.000-07:002010-08-08T22:22:10.131-07:00Kashmir Secessionist's - Wake up Ass-holes!I am sure many of you would be full of disgust for the opinion I have on Kashmir Secessionist's. But I am more disgusted with all those people who have been arguing that Kashmir should secede from India. You may think that I am just another Indian supporter who does not understand the reality of Kashmir. However, before you think that you have understood me, it is important to listen to my view Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-82216123888724857042010-08-05T05:54:00.000-07:002010-08-05T06:20:41.381-07:00When will commonsense replace opaque processes and wisdom of senior officers?They tell me that there is a process for allocation tenders. They tell me that people involved in the process are all senior officers. And then I find that tenders that are allocated are worse than what my house maid would go and get. Then they tell that proper processes were followed and approved by senior officers. By the way if you think that the rates are exorbitant by an order of magnitude, Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-31568285432260015092010-08-01T11:20:00.000-07:002010-08-01T11:39:39.155-07:00Amazing Article: The truth about encountersI just read the amazing article on truth about encounter on indiatogether.org I thought I would just tweet about the article but some of the lines are so enlightening that I cannot help but put on my blog. "People are as much attuned to fairness as they are to individual self-interest. Therefore, any institution regulating human behaviour will have to ensure that the compromises between Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-17727862766609373712010-07-31T11:05:00.000-07:002010-07-31T12:31:39.613-07:00Legal history of the Best Bakery caseThe burning of "Best Bakery" building was one of the shameful incidents in Gujarat riots of 2002. 14 people of which 12 were muslims died ( wikipedia article). The details of the case were:"... period between about 8.30 p.m. on 01/03/2002 and 11.00 a.m. on 02/03/2002, residential building and bakery belonging to a Muslim family, was set on fire and burnt down by members of an unlawful assembly, Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-45608484115746193162010-07-03T03:58:00.000-07:002010-07-08T00:57:36.499-07:00Bilski: Has the Court ruled right?The much awaited Bilski vs Kappos was decided on Monday, 28th June by the US Supreme Court. The Bilski patent was rejected earlier by the Federal court on the ground that the claimed invention was not tied to a "machine" or caused "transformation of a physical object". However, the Supreme Court rejected that line of argument saying that rejecting a "process" by a test not explicitly stated in Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-74406479446663948012010-04-21T09:29:00.000-07:002010-04-21T09:31:22.142-07:00Code-For-India: Bringing transparency and efficiency in Government functioningMy guest post on Code-For-India on lawandotherthings blog.Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-41696899523623720802010-02-15T04:40:00.000-08:002010-02-15T09:05:27.232-08:00Can UTV Bindass be sued for "Emotional Atyachar"?On flipping channel I recently found a show called "Emotional Atyachar" on UTV Bindass. The main objective of the show is to test if your partner is loyal to you or not. The show reminded me of the "Cheaters" thats aired on CW Plus. In Cheaters, a person can ask the show people to see if their partner is cheating or not. The crew would then follow the "suspected cheater" like a detective armed Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8766838354446422582.post-2466434716701602732010-01-25T08:03:00.001-08:002010-01-25T11:18:15.704-08:003 Idiots - Philosophically Advancing or Populist?I was finally able to watch 3-idiots a couple of weeks back. The movie is pretty hilarious, music is amazing and everyone has done a very good job. I think you can find much detailed review of the movie elsewhere and I am going to focus only on the philosophical thinking advanced in the movie.Before I start I want to make a few points clear. Firstly, many people believe that they are practical Sushant Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122606453459362552noreply@blogger.com2