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For a ‘Dalitariat’ revolution

The book provides an overarching analysis of almost all the important problems faced by India today and is a must read for all those interested in cas

Sushma Swaraj, L.K. Advani, Rajnath Singh, Narendra Modi and Murli Manohar Joshi releasing the BJP’s manifesto for the 2014 general election in New Delhi on April 7, 2014.

Tools of an ideology

The threat to minorities is not from Hindus as a majority community but from the ideology and proponents of Hindu Rashtra. The majority community need

Justice Jasti Chelameswar gestures as he speaks during the news conference in New Delhi, India, January 12, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Speaking truth to power

Given their experience and calibre, it is difficult to assume that the four judges were oblivious of the personal risks involved and the likely backla

The Full Text of the new Constitution of Indian Republic as passed by the Constitutent Assembly of India was signed by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the President of the Constituent Assembly of India. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the President of the Constituent Assembly of India signing a copy of the new constitution of Indian Republic at the Constitutent Assembly Hall in New Delhi, the capital of India.

Composite culture and its discontents

The evolution of a composite culture reached its zenith during the independence movement, which found its expression in the Constitution. The Sangh Pa

DELHI, 21/01/2014: Lawyers seen at Supreme Court which today awarded life sentences to 15 death row convicts in New Delhi, Tuesday. Photo: Monica Tiwari.

Guided by passion

The Justice Karnan case has highlighted again the urgent need to amend the law and procedure on the exercise of suo motu contempt proceedings by the S

GUWAHATI, 21/06/2013: A holy man gives blessings to the devotees at Kamakhya temple during the Ambubachi festival in Guwahati on June 21, 2013. Thousands of devotees assemble here every year for the three-day festival which starts from today. The festival is celebrated to mark the menstruation period of the Goddess during which the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine remains closed.
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Denial of rights

The anti-women values, customs and usages were directly targeted and remedied in the Constituent Assembly by the founders.

Disturbing signals

If constitutional dialogue is taken as tyranny, Emergency days in new fatigues may not be far behind. There are enough signs to caution the country.

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Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer: Constitutional nationalist

Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer understood Indian culture as the constitutional culture of India. For him this was the real Indian heritage, about which he

Muslim children at Kashmiri Gate in New Delhi. A file photograph. The Act does not mandate that the 25 per cent quota should be taken from non-minority students. If linguistic and religious minority educational institutions are directed to give representation to children belonging to the weaker sections in their own communities, it will enhance their rights and not violate them.-SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA

Lesson in justice

The Supreme Court's verdict will help demolish the subtle policy of segregation engrafted into India's education system.

Anti-reservation demonstrators after the verdict, outside the Supreme Court on April 10. The cream of the cream are to be found in the masculine members of the so-called higher castes, who have captured every area of the public domain education, business, public employment, entrepreneurship, and even the judiciary.-MANVENDER VASHIST/PTI

Bitter sweet

The "creamy layer" needs to be defined, perhaps even renamed.

The Supreme Court of India.-V. SUDERSHAN

Conflict within

The judiciary exposes the hollowness of the government's position and also betrays its own outdated values.