Indian National Congress: Looking forward
It is clear that Narendra Modi has pulled of a remarkable and humongous victory. The depth and width of Indian democracy requires that I compliment him roundly. In particular, he has managed to create...
View ArticleDivisive politics, spoils system and the diminishing of parliamentary democracy
Within days of assuming power, the Modi sarkar has announced the de facto recall/dismissal of governors, the removal of statutory post holders, the rejection of Gopal Subramaniam’s name for the apex...
View ArticleAn end to the spoils system
Within the first fortnight of assuming office, it appears that top priority has been accorded by the Modi government to ensuring vacation of several posts which it treats as legitimately within its...
View ArticleAzlan: Our eldest son
On a cold winter evening in 2008, our lives were changed yet again by an animal after an interval of almost 38 years, the last time I had had, in quick succession, two lovely Alsations/German...
View ArticleSanthara is not suicide: Rajasthan high court judgment equating the two must...
The Rajasthan high court judgment directing santhara/ sallekhana to be treated as suicide under IPC will hopefully, sooner rather than later, be rectified by the apex court. A charitable description of...
View ArticleUsurping Parliament’s power: Instead of aborting NJAC, Supreme Court should...
If an over thousand page collection of five judgments, diligently researched, painstakingly written, bona fide believed in, assiduously dealing with every point urged, written after comprehensive and...
View ArticleAgustaWestland windmills: From AP to CP (Sonia Gandhi), the BJP attack is...
It is difficult to substitute sense for sensationalism, fact for falsehood and detail for diversion in the AgustaWestland (AW) issue, since it is a punchy cocktail of politics, law, rhetoric, gossip...
View ArticleNIA’s U-turn in Malegaon case throws up more questions than it answers
Reacting to terrorism and any investigation into terrorism cases cannot brook any political interference. The carnage wrought upon innocent people, whatever be their creed or religion, needs hard-nosed...
View ArticleHer reproductive autonomy: Surrogacy regulations must respect diversity of...
Abhishek Singhvi and Anish Dayal The recent Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2016 reinforces the legendary constitutional historian Sir Ivor Jennings’ comment: “The truth is that the rule of law is apt to...
View ArticleReasons not to believe: Finance Bill 2017 could end tribunal autonomy and...
The passage of the Finance Bill 2017 creates history on various counts. Firstly, an ominous broad spectrum legislation encompassing diverse subjects way beyond the limited scope of Article 110 of the...
View ArticleOpen letter to incoming CJI: The most pressing priorities before India’s...
Respected CJI designate, You are about to head the world’s most populous functioning democracy’s apex court, the planet’s most dynamic judicial institution, a final court with globally the highest...
View ArticleLessons from the 2G verdict: It punctures the main plank of the election...
The 2G verdict by the special CBI court, as it stands today, punctures the main plank of Modi’s election campaign on the back of which BJP stormed into power in 2014. Its ravings and rantings...
View ArticleSupreme Court’s supreme test: The institution that India depends on must move...
History alone will decide whether Friday, January 12 was the judiciary’s Black Friday, or an inner effulgence of institutional angst, pain and courageous reform. The world’s most powerful court, the...
View ArticleControversial as Lalu Prasad may be, his consecutive sentences in fodder scam...
By Abhishek Singhvi and Anish Dayal There is a deceptively simple yet dark and dangerous mathematics behind the 14 year sentence handed down to Lalu Prasad by the Special CBI court in Ranchi. Judge...
View ArticleThe spontaneous protests: Country is uniting behind the Constitution after a...
Over the last few days, four things have become painfully apparent. First, the government’s legal case on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 is so deeply flawed that it has to resort to blatant...
View Article“Azlan: My Hatchiko”
The title of this article refers to the best dog movie ( possibly the best animal movie) ever made, that too based upon a true story. Azlan, our dog of over 11 years, was our...
View ArticleOur courts are not in good health: Increasingly, there is a tendency to...
We are still very much a young democracy, where the big questions are still in flux. How much will the government interfere in a person’s private life? What makes a person a citizen? These questions...
View ArticleA package without content: Government’s package doesn’t deliver on fiscal...
By Abhishek Singhvi and Jaiveer Shergill The Indian government, in an attempt to paint a rosy picture on a cactus canvas, has lauded itself for achieving a lower “doubling rate” and a lower death rate...
View ArticleFederalism in times of Covid: Pandemic has injected operational unitariness,...
Federalism is a strange creature, full of paradoxes. Nowhere mentioned in the Indian Constitution (not even in the Preamble), federalism is nevertheless a part of its basic structure and unamendable...
View ArticleCovid, courts, creativity, country: A miscellany
Alliteration survives adversity and also provides some focus to thoughts streaming through relatively idle minds during a pandemic. It may also have some commonsensical insights for common folks,...
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