First published in 2001, Courts and Their Judgments soon became a pioneering work on the subject. It raised important questions on the functioning of our judiciary— questions that continue to be as relevant today. Do judges merely enforce and interpret the law? Or do they at times interpolate words into statutes, even into the Constitution?Continue reading “Arun Shourie’s “Courts And Their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences”… and my own take on it as a layman.”
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STATE CAPITALISM: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”?
What set me thinking hard after reading the news-report reproduced below is why such a big furore or political storm gets created in India by the media, civil society, hordes of “green” and/or Human-rights NGOs and the Lutyens media mafia as well whenever the Govt of India or some other state government comes forward toContinue reading “STATE CAPITALISM: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”?”
Who is really governing the Governor?
https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/governor-itis-the-bjps-new-weapon-against-opposition-governments-3465469 Brinda Karat makes out a veiled but forceful case for the abolition of the office of State Governor citing imperfections and infirmities in the way they are appointed , the way they are subjected to pressures and dictats by their political masters in the Central Government and the way they meddle in the runningContinue reading “Who is really governing the Governor?”
In defence of Nobel Prize for Ben Bernanke: Party-pooping in hindsight is unfair!
Both in the stratospherically cerebral worlds of economists and central-bankers as well as in the worldwide social-media (Twitter , WhatsApp and Private email-groups), there’s a lot of trolling, snide Monday-morning quarter-backing and bitchy-sniping going on about Ben Bernanke being awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, 2022. Below are 2 examples – one in social mediaContinue reading “In defence of Nobel Prize for Ben Bernanke: Party-pooping in hindsight is unfair!”
TWO FRIENDS TALK ABOUT THE “HIJAB CONTROVERSY” and the STATE OF THE UNION OF INDIA
Below is a transcript of a WhatsApp conversation this morning that a very dear friend of mine and I had on the ongoing raging national debate on Hijab which has grabbed the headlines of every newspaper we read and every TV news channel we watch. THE FRIEND: Good morning! Any views on the nonsensical butContinue reading “TWO FRIENDS TALK ABOUT THE “HIJAB CONTROVERSY” and the STATE OF THE UNION OF INDIA”
An R-Day abomination averted, thank God!
As a proud Tamilian myself, I too did feel more than just disappointment… I felt a bit of anger and hurt welling up too inside my heart when I read the news a week ago that the Central …. oops! sorry wrong terminology!…. the Union Government of India, more specifically, the Ministry of Defence, hadContinue reading “An R-Day abomination averted, thank God!”
Dear Government of India, please make law or policy to make Big Farming in India earn their MSP entitlement through CSR 🙏
The policy of CSR …. Corporate Social Responsibility …. was ushered in to the country only recently. Today the Indian corporate sector is engaged actively in many good CSR initiatives and activities across the country thanks to the Tax-incentives under the Indian Income Tax Law that have been made available to all eligible corporates whoContinue reading “Dear Government of India, please make law or policy to make Big Farming in India earn their MSP entitlement through CSR 🙏”
Bible classes for Ms. Aruna Roy
Aruna Roy writes: Civil society is not the enemy: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ajit-doval-nsa-fourth-generation-warfare-constitution-7628080/?utm_source=newzmate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=opinion&pnespid=Ba925kBUtX4dnU.Ps4DBGx5Qo0Ngn7Jyux4XA6RaLZPKuseb2zjVOGtZwVhKcEILv7CqHrt7 Aruna Roy deserves credit for giving Doval … and indeed to all of us … a refresher crash course through the above newspaper column on the Constitutional duties and responsibility of civil servants …. But then she conveniently forgets that so-called social activists like herContinue reading “Bible classes for Ms. Aruna Roy”
Boris is an “English shopkeeper” … but Modi is no Emperor Shah Jahan, is he?
These are words of syrupy ingratiation …. Not true or heartfelt words of praise … Boris is simply angling for good terms for a new long term Trade Deal with India … which is currently work-in-progress and under tortuous negotiations between the Governments. Do not ever forget, O my Indian brethren, that the East IndiaContinue reading “Boris is an “English shopkeeper” … but Modi is no Emperor Shah Jahan, is he?”
“50 Shades of Federalism” in India
If you did read today’s THE HINDU , on almost every page you turned there you would have found either news report or analysis or Op-Ed on the theme of how the Constitutional holy cow of “Federalism” in India is getting destroyed by the ruling dispensation in the Union Government of the country. In theContinue reading ““50 Shades of Federalism” in India”