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La Dolce Vita

Will we reach the promised land if luxury leads the way? Have Plato’s healthy cities become a myth? The stock markets are singing an old tune.

Tata to Wage Arrears

The Delhi High Court dismissed a plea of a section of Indian Airlines employees regarding unpaid wage arrears of Rs 208 crore. If disinvestment takes this route, will the prime State policy be in trouble?

Two Judges from India

Two American lawyers of non-resident Indian origin succeeded in recent judicial elections in Houston, Texas. Both have their roots in Kerala. Americans of Indian origin are about 1% of the 330 million people in USA and have demonstrated accomplishments in business, government, medicine, academics, and now law.

Eating Order

The apex court recently passed a judgment ruling that the owner of movie halls or multiplexes have the right to regulate people from carrying any outside food or beverage into the theatres. It is a huge reprieve for cinema operators.

2 States

The six-decade-old row between Karnataka and Maharashtra can be traced to the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. Other states too are embroiled in disputes which are nowhere near resolution.

The Indian Ethic

Justice Surya Kant recently brought focus on the Arthashastra, which must be studied by those in public life. But its guidance cannot help much in governance if we lack ethics as often seen nowadays.

All Creatures Great and Small

Petitions have been filed in various courts regarding “harm” done to non-human objects, be they dogs, cows, trees or rivers. Should they be seen as frivolous pleas which waste the court’s time?

Crystal gazing India-China relations

2022 closed with a fresh setback to the fractured relations between India and China after Indian troops threw out 300 strong Chinese troops who had crossed the Line of Actual Control at Yang Tze in Tawang Sector of Arunachal Pradesh on December 9. How will the relations between the two Asian giants be in 2023?

Game of chance

The government has ridden piggyback on a Supreme Court order declaring rummy as more of a game of skill than chance, to try and legalise the online gaming industry in India. The MeITy has also proposed a self-regulatory organisation on the lines of the Press Council of India for this industry sector.

All Good With Note Ban

A 4:1 Constitution Bench verdict absolved the Narendra Modi government of rushing in with demonetisation, but the dissenting verdict notes the RBI did the government’s bidding without applying its mind.

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