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A COMMON MISSION

Above: Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu lights the ceremonial lamp at the ILRF’s maiden conclave at Ranchi in 2016 in the presence of Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court Justice Virender Singh ...

DESPERATELY SEEKING CONGRESS

By Inderjit Badhwar Actually, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political party needs no external icon in order to give itself more credibility or acceptability. The Bharatiya Janata Party already had...

TIMELY INTERVENTION

Above: CBI Headquarters in New Delhi/Photo: Anil Shakya ~By Inderjit Badhwar In what amounts to an almost laughable self-fulfilling prophesy, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the natio...

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH AND A LESSON FOR INDIA

Above: Brett Kavanaugh’s display of political partisanship while repudiating Dr Christine Ford’s #MeToo testimony of rape was shocking ~By Inderjit Badhwar Perhaps the most powerful and gripping...

A SPOKE IN THE WHEEL

Above: Prime Minister  Narendra Modi with French president Francois Hollande in Paris in 2015 where he announced the Rafale deal/Photo: UNI ~By Inderjit Badhwar What started off as political spa...

THE MORALITY PLAY

Above: Justice Ranjan Gogoi being sworn in as the CJI by President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan/Photo: UNI Immediately after donning the mantle of the chief justice of India, Justice Ranja...

The Minority Report

Delivering the keynote address at the Indian Law Institute earlier this year, Justice DY Chandrachud of the Supreme Court took the view that India needed to rethink the power of dissent. He added that...

Law in the Digital Era

Before he steps down as chief justice of India, Dipak Misra is slated to deliver one of the most crucial judgments of his eventful career. The bench he heads will pass verdict on the clutch of petitio...

Passing the Buck

Two days after the landmark Supreme Court judgment that decriminalised homosexuality, one of the more eloquent judges on that bench, Justice DY Chandrachud, expressed criticism of the centre’s long st...

Passing the Baton

In November 1951, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru faced an unusual revolt. It was not from within the Congress party but from six Supreme Court judges. Nehru had wanted to supersede Justice Patanjali ...

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