India Pakistan Roots of the impasseA.G. NOORANIAvtar Singh Bhasin’s book on the India-Pakistan deadlock unravels secrets of many a crucial episode and provides full references to enable the reader
Essay Nana Deshmukh: Bharat Ratna for a FUNDRAISERA.G. NOORANINana Deshmukh has been conferred the Bharat Ratna for 2019. He neither enriched Parliament nor the public platform nor the press with his contribution
Essay Right to listen in personA.G. NOORANIThe refusal of a visa can be struck down if it is on the face of it arbitrary or violative of an international treaty or of the state’s own citizens.
Essay A dubious ConstitutionA.G. NOORANIThe Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir is not legally valid because it was enacted by an Assembly that had been installed through a coup by the Centre in
Jinnah role in freedom struggle THE PEOPLE’S JINNAH HALLA.G. NOORANIBoth Indians and Pakistanis believe that Jinnah was politically born on March 23, 1940, the day the Muslim League adopted the Pakistan resolution. Bot
Essay Pressures on judgesA.G. NOORANIJustice Kurian Joseph’s disclosures immediately after retirement touch upon the integrity and independence of judges of the Supreme Court.
Essay The police & the ConstitutionA.G. NOORANIA charter of the CBI will be worthless unless it gives statutory recognition to the principle that it is a police officer’s duty to enforce the law an
Ayodhya issue RSS’ endgame in AyodhyaA.G. NOORANIThere is no legal route for the present dispensation to use an ordinance to build a Ram temple, but the Sangh Parivar looks set to resort to legal thu
A Muslim soldierA.G. NOORANIThe test of a Sarkari Mussalman is the selling of the soul. The author is not a Sarkari Mussalman, but ambition drives him to hover precariously on th
Ayodhya/Babri Masjid Courts and Babri MasjidA.G. NooraniWhen the Ayodhya dispute comes up for hearing before the Supreme Court on October 29, the fundamentals of India’s secular polity, public confidence in
Islamic faith The mosque in Islamic law and faithA.G. Noorani NO one who has followed Justice J.S. Verma’s pronouncement, on and off the bench, should be surprised at his sweeping and woefully ignorant re
Essay Encounter epidemic A.G. NOORANIThe process of investigation into crime and prosecution of criminals needs to be protected from interference by politicians, and international protoco
The great Indian family A strict population control policy sounds good on paper, but it ignores sociological correlations.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
