Justice Jasti Chelameswar has struck a powerful blow against the poisonous legacy of the Supreme Court in the Second Judges Case, 1993, which usurped the Executive’s power to appoint judges and replaced it with an opaque system of selection by dominant judges. By breaking the omerta code on this sham, … Read More
A sense of abandonment has seized Jammu and Ladakh since Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh made a second visit to the valley (August 26) to take stock of the troubled situation there following the death of media savvy Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani (July 8), but did not utter a … Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned a closed door meeting of top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders of the danger of a chasm with the people. Indirectly admitting the possibility of poor communication of the Government’s development-oriented schemes to improve the lives of the most marginalised sections of society, the Prime … Read More
With seemingly casual remarks from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has changed the political template in Balochistan and Jammu & Kashmir, both on the Indian side and in the territory occupied by Pakistan in 1947-48 in defiance of international law and the directives and resolutions … Read More
Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a moral compass to his nation, said, “Every people must answer morally for all of its past – including that past which is shameful”. This involves trying to understand, “How could such a thing have been allowed? Where in all this is our error? … Read More
With three Rio-bound athletes publicly restrained from travelling to Brazil to participate in the Olympic Games (one later allowed to travel but not finally cleared for participation, at the time of writing), and a Rs 25 crore haul of party drug ‘meow meow’ by a special cell of Delhi Police … Read More
The recent slitting of a catholic priest’s neck in Normandy (July 26, 2016); the weaponisation of a truck to mow down 84 persons on Bastille Day in Nice (July 16, 2016); the attack on the French football team in the Euro 2016 Final when French President Francois Hollande was in … Read More
In an act of rare intellectual daring, the beleaguered Hindus of Jammu & Kashmir have taken recourse to the Indian Constitution to hit back at the extreme majoritarianism practiced by successive regimes in the State. The Supreme Court has accepted a public interest petition (489/2016) that was rejected by the … Read More
Early in the morning of July 16, as the world woke up to news of an ongoing coup d’état in Turkey, by a group that identified itself as “Peace in the Country Council,” it was soon clear that the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would beat back the attempted … Read More
His valiant efforts to defend India’s position on climate change in the face of US opposition at the Paris Conference accounts for Prakash Javadekar’s elevation to Cabinet rank (in the Ministry of Human Resource Development) but does not fully explain his abrupt exit from the Ministry of Environment & Forests. … Read More
