Should laws be honoured in letter or in spirit? This is a vexed question which has been subjected to considerable analysis ever since the evolution of the judicial process. In today’s context, the deb...
As you live by the sword, so shall you die by the sword, is an old Biblical maxim implying that your acts of omission and commission will come back to haunt you. So don’t blame the gods or anybody els...
We carry in this issue a chapter from President Pranab Mukherjee's book The Turbulent Years. It is a vivid account of a significant downturn in the vicissitudes of his political journey which culminat...
The unfolding events in Arunachal Pradesh—elaborated in detail in our cover story—point to systemic imbalances which, if not addressed by all those who care deeply about India’s functioning as a repub...
India’s Republic Day is commemorated each year with pomp and circumstance and is associated increasingly with a jingoistic display of military muscle in order to impress the potentates—last year the P...
Our courts are going to have a handful. Already overburdened by a mindboggling backlog of cases of every conceivable nature—civil, criminal, jurisdictional, international—the higher judiciary must now...
The long-awaited tantalizing Supreme Court judgment in the NJAC case was out in the public domain on October 16—about four months after the conclusion of hearings. The court essentially struck down as...
Writing the year-end edit is often a lonely and onerous task. This is largely because, through the year, magazines have their ups and downs in terms of the quality, merit, credibility, displ...
KALYUGA AND THE RULE OF LAW
Ever since the United Nations adop-ted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, December 10 is observed every year to memorialize this remarkable milestone...
THE EFFICACY AND LEGALITY OF MASS SNOOPING
DURING this period of unusual national turbulence over the primacy of the constitution over partisan politics, we tackle two separate but re...