Letter from the Editor

By Inderjit Badhwar The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the limits of immunity under Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) could not have come at a more critical time for Indian de...

By Inderjit Badhwar In a historic and progressive ruling, the Supreme Court of India under Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna has taken a decisive step to halt the dangerous tide of communal animosity th...

By Inderjit Badhwar The events unfolding in Markadwadi, a small village in Maharashtra, have sparked a conversation that goes to the heart of India’s democratic identity. The villagers’ initiative...

By Inderjit Badhwar The recent Maharashtra elections have raised concerns about the reliability of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). With a significant mismatch between votes counted and votes po...

By Inderjit Badhwar In this week’s (December 2, 2024 issue) cover story of India Legal magazine, Digital Editor Vikram Kilpady focuses on Delhi’s status as the world’s most polluted capital unders...

By Inderjit Badhwar With a population of over five million, Indian immigrants in the United States face an unprecedented climate of uncertainty as immigration policies hang in the balance, impacti...

By Inderjit Badhwar As election night started, one point emerged clear from the opening 5pm exit polls: the nation was ready for change. According to both CNN and MSNBC—two news outlets often at o...

By Inderjit Badhwar   In the long and often tumultuous history of American elections, moments of fierce debate and ideological divides have not been rare. From the Nixon-McCarthy era dur...

[In this fantasy-reality farewell missive Lady Justice writes to India’s Chief Justice on the eve of his retirement]

The only Indian president I can claim to have known personally was Kocheril Raman Narayanan, the tenth president, holding office from July 25, 1997, to July 25, 2002. He was previously India’s ambassador to America when I worked in Washington D.C. as a journalist and we often dined together at his home in the company of his delightful Burmese-born wife, Usha.