The writer is a constitutional jurist and senior advocate to the Supreme Court.
November 21, 2005 00:00 IST
When Satish Sawhney of the Nehru Centre invited me to deliver this inaugural lecture in the series “Challenges to Indian Democracy”...
October 18, 2005 02:00 IST
The hangman’s noose is again in the news—thanks to the front-page of The Indian Express (October 17). But it has long been on the ...
August 05, 2005 00:00 IST
The speech delivered by Justice Markandey Katju, chief justice of the High Court of Madras, on the first anniversary of the inauguration of ...
June 29, 2005 02:36 IST
In his autobiography, Robert Moru, a famous surgeon, writes: it is well for every man to stop once in a while and think what sort of collect...
March 14, 2005 01:30 IST
Nothing succeeds like success. Now that the murky politics of Jharkhand is behind us, thanks largely to the March 9 order of the Supreme Cou...
October 30, 2004 00:00 IST
T.R. Andhyarujina's excellent article on the editorial page of the Indian Express, ‘Tyabji, a man for our times’ (October 28), rem...
August 30, 2004 00:00 IST
‘VIP’—It were the British who coined it. But, initially, it had no snob value. During the Second World War, it was used to de...
March 24, 2004 00:00 IST
Emerson used to say that nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm: V M Tarkunde, like his mentor M N Roy, was an enthusiast with a ...
January 07, 2004 00:00 IST
In England, ‘‘parliamentary privilege’’, though part of the law of the land, is, to an extent, an exemption from the gen...
November 29, 2003 00:00 IST
I detest ‘‘sting operations’’; clandestine clips that intrude on a man’s privacy: whoever or whatever that man may ...
April 05, 2003 00:00 IST
Is the war against Iraq legal and justified? The answer is it would have been if force had been expressly authorised by the existing Securit...
January 25, 2003 00:00 IST
More than fifty years ago — between the years 1944 and 1948 to be exact — I was educated at a famous Jesuit institution of learnin...
September 30, 2002 00:00 IST
The constitutional position of India’s President is similar to that of England’s Sovereign, described in elegant prose more than a...
November 30, 2000 00:00 IST
Some years ago, in an address to members of the International Bar Association, the chief justice of the New York Court of Appeals said tha...
July 19, 2000 00:00 IST
In April this year the Law Commission -- an expert non-statutory body -- submitted to the Central government its unanimous report recommen...
May 22, 2000 00:00 IST
The Constitution Ninetieth Amendment Bill (adding Clause 4B to Article 16) had an easy passage during the last session of Parliament. Just...
March 14, 2000 00:00 IST
MARCH 13: Jeremy Bentham was a legal and social reformer of the 19th century. His mummified body, appropriately dressed up with top hat an...
