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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi with Governor Surjit Singh Barnala at Raj Bhavan on August 15, 2008. When he was Governor of Tamil Nadu in 1990-91, he refused to send a report to the Centre recommending imposition of President’s Rule in the State.

Use and abuse of Governors’ powers

The attack on dissenting States by frequently misusing the Raj Bhavan reflects not only the Centre’s immediate political ambitions but also its lack o

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Biometric scanning of fingerprints. The new law will pose immense threat to citizens’ biometric security.

Totalitarian threat: Provisions of Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill need scrutiny

The expansion of state power is writ large in the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, whose provisions need strict scrutiny as they enable colle

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Justice H.R. Khanna, the lone dissenter in the A.D.M Jabalpur case in 1976.

Will the Pegasus case be another ‘tryst with destiny’ for India?

The Pegasus case poses an unprecedented challenge to India, hinting as it does at the emergence of a surveillance state across countries in furtheranc

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Students outside Tihar Jail in New Delhi on June 17, awaiting the release of Asif Iqbal Tanha, Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita.

Deconstructing a draconian law

The Delhi High Court verdict directing the release of three student leaders is significant as it has analysed certain harsh provisions in the UAPA wit

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A protest against the triple talaq Bill in Mumbai on August 2, 2019.

When laws subvert the Constitution

A solidarity against inhuman and unconstitutional laws is a democratic imperative in present-day India.

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A protest against the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in Mangaluru on February 21, 2014.

Crushing free spirit in the name of terrorism

The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act has always remained a powerful tool in the hands of successive regimes to suppress opposition. The approach o

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Comedians Kunal Kamra and Munwar Faruqui. They face some form of criminal proceedings for the work they do.

The Union government’s assault on free speech

While charging students, activists, comedians and journalists under criminal and anti-terrorism laws, the government’s strategy to curb criticism is p

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Dalit children seated separately during lunch in a primary school in Binapur, Odisha, a file picture. Caste-based segregation continues to be practised across the country in spite of educational progress.

Reservation as a political imperative

It is incumbent upon the state to act and remedy the pernicious influence of caste by eradicating its hierarchies and doing so requires looking at res

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Priests carrying out a 'purification' ritual at Sabarimala after two women below 50 entered the shrine, on January 2.

Threat to rule of law

When populism and electoral politics overweigh constitutionalism, the nation falls into a deep crisis.

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Justice Y.V. Chandrachud who has been appointed the new Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India.

Not an honourable track record

Even while acknowledging the theoretical value of the Supreme Court’s judgment in the right to privacy case, one needs to realise that the euphoria it

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A judicial heritage

THE history of the judiciary is not just its legal history alone. It required the well-known architectural historian Chris Miele to sketch the

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NEW DELHI, 16/10/2015: A scene at the Supreme Court following judgement on National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Law meant to replace the two-decade old collegium system of judges appointing judges in higher judiciary, in New Delhi on October 16, 2015. A Bench of five judges of the SC held the 99th Constitutional Amendment Act and the NJAC Act 2014 'unconstitutional and void'.
Photo: V. Sudershan

Need for reform

A formal procedural framework to select judges, guaranteeing openness and transparency, is necessary to counter the trust deficit affecting the colleg

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