By P. MANIVANNAN “Aunty, what is this about Sabarimala temple? I never knew that women are not allowed there. Why so, Aunty?” “Raju, the reigning God in Sabarimala, Lord Ayyappa, …
The #KarnatakaFloorTest today is only one part about B.S. Yeddyurappa. The larger message is about Narendra Modi, and the BJP’s claim of being a “party with a difference”. Different, that …
Despite a gazillion tweets to his 33.1 million “followers” (about 14.5 million of them fake), @narendramodi is astonishingly short of 140 characters today, on the day the Supreme Court delivered …
In 2010, when the Congress-led UPA was in power, Delhi high court chief justice Ajit Prakash Shah, then 62, was overlooked by the collegium for elevation to the Supreme Court, while …
The BJP in general and the Narendra Modi government in particular routinely fire from the shoulders of the armed forces. Vacuous adjectives like nationalism, patriotism and the “soldier on the border” …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: The recent judgement of our apex court striking down the appeal of our State government to make primary education in the mother-tongue compulsory has attracted both …
India often attracts the epithet of a “soft state“, whenever it is seen by right-wing and conservative hawks and hotheads as acting “weakly” on Pakistan, terrorism, China, Maoism, etc. But …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: Last week, a relative called me up when I was in the middle of my practice to ask me if I knew that the anti-diabetic drug …
Supreme Court judge, Justice Markandey Katju, has used the example of Tipu Sultan to illustrate the point that Hindu-Muslim relations suffer from the rewriting of history to project Muslim rulers …
Using the “faith and belief of Hindus” as a key barometer, two of the judges of the three-judge Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court have ruled that the “area …
There are plenty of hints that Karnataka is hurtling towards the hustings once again: a high-decibel Congress padayatra on the illegal mining issue followed by a high-profile Rahul Gandhi visit; …
Senior advocate Anil Divan, a signatory to the original memorandum of charges against Justice P.D. Dinakaran of the Karnataka High Court, in The Hindu: “The Justice Dinakaran controversy is ‘snowballing’ …
Prashant Bhushan, a public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court, in the latest issue of the Economic & Political Weekly (EPW): “The Justice P.D. Dinakaran episode underlines the need to …
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 following is the full, unedited text of a quarter-page advertisement issued by a Delhi-based NGO called PATRIOT, that appears on the business page of Deccan Herald today. Deccan Herald …
ASHWINI A. writes from Bangalore: Early this morning, a Delhi-datelined news item in Deccan Herald made me pull my hair out in wonderment: the Supreme Court of India had ruled …
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 …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Subjected to internal push and pull, the Full Bench started warping. Then the cracks appeared and finally because of fissures it broke into several pieces. The full …
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: Courtroom No.15 of the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi is no bigger than the ones that are shown in most T.N. Seetharam serials. …
According to Indo-Asian News Service, New Delhi’s Somerville School, like many schools in the capital, had a summer vacation from May 15 to July 1, a one-day holiday for Dasara, …