To pick just one bone, take the visible haste in some cases—be it Arnab or Ayodhya—and the inexplicable slowness elsewhere. Dare we say…the jury is out on our judges?
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Successive governments have always tried to, and often succeeded in, keeping the judiciary under control by targeting the country’s top...
Being political is inevitable for the Supreme Court as it is tasked with interpreting the Constitution
The Supreme Court’s Constitution benches, which have shaped India’s political history in many ways, are overburdened today
District judiciary remains a last career resort for lawyers. Litigants deserve better.
A 21st c stand-up comic and a 19th c Bengali bhadralok editor meet to compare notes on the augustness of our courts….
Much of the ills of the justice system lie in opaque, inefficient judicial administration. It should be reformed and made transparent.
Judicial performance evaluations for higher judiciary can help identify bottlenecks, improve judgments and accountability
In shutting down everything, including our courts, the pandemic has willy-nilly galvanised a vital infrastructural push: the digitisation of our judicial...
A US-based digital forensic firm’s Bhima-Koregaon findings come as a shot in the arm for those who believe the case was fabricated to frame the 16...
Political will is a must if India were to win the battle against air pollution, one of the biggest crises facing the country
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Double citizenship within India? Meet the twice-blessed people of Ganjeipadar, Patusineri and Phagunseneri. They should be part of...
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The animus sown during the assembly poll still poisons the air in Bihar. Is Chirag Paswan a part of the ruling coalition or not? Who knows?...
An account of India’s identity-shifting scramble for global capital falls short of a satisfying exegesis.
A kidnapped Election Commission! Journalists on the run. WiFi on the blip. A rich general in charge…. Myanmar faces a ‘coup dirtier than a virus’ with pluck and tamarind kombucha.