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The writer is an author and lawyer based in Mumbai

Muslims should urge a settlement of the Kashmir problem and thus improvement in Pakistan-India relations.

The designs of RSS contradict Shimla Pact

The agreement suited both sides admirably. It was the product of an understanding between the two leaders at the...

22 Dec 2019 12:10 AM IST

The framers of Indias Constitution and its Constituent Assembly deliberately and wisely rejected pleas by an articulate minority for a presidential system. (Representational Image)

Presidential system poses a danger to democracy itself

Its members have to be members of the legislature and can be thrown out of office by a vote of no-confidence.

16 Dec 2019 12:05 AM IST

The truth, on the other hand, is that public confidence in the judiciary will be shaken if, faced with a prima facie case of his bias, the judge insists on deciding the case.

India needs laws to protect press from govt

Four police officers entered its offices to search for photographs of a clash between the police and demonstrators at...

8 Dec 2019 7:08 AM IST

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray after the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance won the floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly in Mumbai on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Maharashtra shows Modi will bite dust if Oppn unites

As a senior NCP leader, Pawar was entrusted most unwisely with a paper containing the signatures of all NCP MLAs.

1 Dec 2019 7:07 AM IST

During the emergency , a euphemism for dictatorship, Indira Gandhi rushed through parliament the 42nd constitutional amendment when top Opposition leaders had been put in jail without trial in June 1975. (Photo: PTI)

Who is to judge the misuse of parliamentary privilege?

It recast the Indian polity radically and gave her wide powers to ban political parties.

25 Nov 2019 12:01 AM IST

Hindu activists climb up the dome of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya which was quickly demolished by end of the day. (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Babri verdict based on faith, not evidence

There now comes the Supreme Court's strange verdict strangely expressed with a stooge addendum which belies its...

17 Nov 2019 12:07 AM IST

Security personnel patrol a deserted street in Srinagar on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Habeas corpus is habeas carcass in Kashmir Valley

The time is come to consider the basics of the legal outrage of imprisonment without trial called 'preventive...

11 Nov 2019 12:27 AM IST

The truth, on the other hand, is that public confidence in the judiciary will be shaken if, faced with a prima facie case of his bias, the judge insists on deciding the case.

Bias in judges hurts public confidence in the judiciary

The law and practice on a judge's recusal merits separate discussion.

3 Nov 2019 12:38 AM IST

Muslims should urge a settlement of the Kashmir problem and thus improvement in Pakistan-India relations.

The Uncle Toms among Indian Muslims over Kashmir

Muslims withdrew into a shell whenever the word Kashmir was uttered.

27 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi

India's freedom fighters fought sedition law

Lynchings became an epidemic shortly after Modi became Prime Minister.

20 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST

Over the years, several strictures have been passed by the high court on political parties that encourage this curious culture of cut-outs, banners, flex boards and festoons to celebrate events and Tamil Nadu is a state that goes to extremes to deify its leaders. (Representational image)

As politicians cannot usurp power, judges must not too

It merits close study in South Asia given its relevance to any parliamentary democracy.

14 Oct 2019 6:13 AM IST

Ideologues (eg, Marxist historians) are free, like anyone else, to write their own version of history. The problem arises when the state seeks to promote its version of history by imposing it through textbooks and state-supported publishing houses. (Photos: AP/ PTI/ ANI)

History should not be abused by politicians

The danger is far greater when the state has a hand in the writing of history.

7 Oct 2019 4:54 AM IST