This week’s cover story is part of our continuing reportage on a subject that is perhaps the most explosive constitutional showdown since the Founding Fathers, in 1950, framed the principles, laws, rules and regulations within whose framework the institutions of the newly-founded Indian Republic are designed and meant to function.
This issue of India Legal is dedicated to the nation’s most celebrated and hallowed secular text that is, in its evangelical message, as powerful as any holy book: The Indian Constitution.
December 10th should be considered, along with all major religious landmark events like Diwali, Xmas, Eid, Gurpurab, Hanukkah, a day of reflection and the celebration of the power of the human spirit.
Will the US Senate confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden’s nominee of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the US Supreme Court become just an effort to feed opposition to Biden? The hearing has become a Republican vs Democrat battle over issues that have little to do with jurisprudence or judicial temperament.