Business Standard, one of the leading business dailies from India, read our year end annual issue: ‘The Best of India Legal-2015’ and described it as an ‘intellectual treat’.
Here is what they had to say:
Trying to make sense of how the rule of law, natural justice, judicial precedents, case histories, judicial activism and accountability impacts the day-to-day functioning of modern India, has given a stand-alone magazine like India Legal credibility, greater outreach and confidence to expand its horizons.
Inderjit Badhwar, its Editor, has rightly said the magazine is “not for, of, and by lawyers, even though this community is now increasingly involved in its content creation,” but, “is about justice, exposing corruption and charlatans, taking a critical stance on legal matters of national and constitutional importance.”
Since its inception a little over eight issues ago, India Legal has been on top of all recent news breaks, covering them from the legal angle, giving them special perspective, or as Badhwar puts it a “new avatar in journalism”.
It is, therefore, no surprise that its year-end special has aptly been titled “The Best of India Legal-2015” and features 17 issues that in the eyes of its editorial and reporting staff best reflects its goal of pursuing “current affairs, investigations and controversies with a solid legal angle that would be a special interest not only to lawyers and judges”, which it sees as its core audience, but also to “general readers, MPs, politicians, students, diplomats and think tanks.”
The issues covered in this special edition range from highlighting the government’s knee jerk measures to combat national capital Delhi’s alarmingly high pollution levels to questioning commentators on their readiness to write off the Congress Party and their alacrity in predicting the “Sunset” of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty just on the basis of the party achieving a record new low in terms of seat share in the 16th Lok Sabha (44).
It talks of why there is no retribution against Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, the so-called instigators of the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, and how them being given a clean chit by the courts of the land, has provided them and their arguments with credibility and renewed strength; as also the dichotomous dilemma surrounding the government’s on again -off again declassification of the files related to erstwhile freedom fighter ‘Netaji” Subhash Chandra Bose, on grounds that it may adversely impact India’s foreign policy and relationships with other nations.
You can read the whole article here.