The law is a jealous mistressNeeds all our time every weekNo time is left for husband, wifeProspects of harmony are bleakSome ...

This year, the Supreme Court struck down casteist prison manuals that had somehow survived the processes of democracy for ...

ONE of the defining legacies of former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dr D.Y. Chandrachud is the unveiling of an Indian version ...

THE petitioners were fortunate in the date for this one when Time and circumstances came together for a seminal judgment ...

SPEAKING in the Constituent Assembly on November 4, 1948, Dr B.R. Ambedkar warned the Constituent Assembly about the fact ...

IN India, rape is still a gendered offence. However, it has shifted away from a purely penial penetration offence. A man is ...

FOLLOWING is a leaked copy— whose source, naturally, cannot be revealed— of a document recently circulated within a country’s ...

WHILE the current impeachment motion against Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav has captured public attention, it merely symptomises ...

BEING in the legal profession, my reading is generally limited to reading books on that subject, some new and others re-read.

IT is worth revisiting two judgments of the Supreme Court. A five-judge Bench has ruled in P. Ramachandra Rao versus State of ...

Once again recommendationsTo transfer Chiefs have comeIt's like shuffling a pack of cardsOr a merry-go-round for someMilords ...

OFTEN lauded as Indian ingenuity, jugaad is, in reality, simply people finding ways to cope with inefficient systems. This ...