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Making capital out of Ambedkar, Maoism, cricket
By T.J.S. GEORGE We as a people have gifts no other people have. Italy and New York, for example, are celebrated for their great mafia leaders. But those leaders could …
CHURUMURI POLL: Supreme Court benches?
The Law Commission recommended the setting up of four benches of the Supreme Court in Delhi, Madras or Hyderabad, Calcutta and Bombay. But the attorney-general Goolam E. Vahanvati has advised …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is CJI right about Dinakaran?
On the very day Rajya Sabha chairman and vice president Hamid Ansari was initiating the impeachment process against Karnataka high court chief justice P.D. Dinakaran by constituting a three-member committee …
‘If he is unfit for SC, how is he fit for Karnataka?’
As “The Strange Case of Justice P.D. Dinakaran” gets caught up in the usual Indian whirligig of caste, politics, nepotism and all the rest, Supreme Court lawyer Rajeev Dhavan goes …
The strange case against Justice P.D. Dinakaran
Justice P.D. Dinakaran, the chief justice of the Karnataka High Court, is in the middle of a blazing legal row. The lead story of The Hindu reports that Justice Dinakaran, …
CHURUMURI POLL: Judge vs Union minister
The case involving the Madras High Court judge who reportedly received a call from a Union minister on granting anticipatory bail to two persons is remarkable for the u-turn it …
CHURUMURI POLL: How corrupt is the judiciary?
Corruption in the judiciary is a subject that no one in India talks about openly, not out of blinding respect for the integrity of the men in black robes but …
Why the quota verdict is smarter than you think
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Hyderabad: In law school, you can’t throw a brick without hitting someone’s opinion on reservation. People take this so seriously that the recent Supreme Court judgment …