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Manoj Mitta
Manoj Mitta is the author of Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India
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EC’s noises ring hollow, eats words it told apex courtSubscriber Only
July 13, 2002 00:00 IST
Attacking political parties, the Election Commission has now taken the moral high ground saying that candidates have to disclose all their a...
Sat, Jul 13, 2002Good intentions are not enoughSubscriber Only
July 11, 2002 00:00 IST
A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal form...
Thu, Jul 11, 2002Snubbed by court, Sidhu counsel calls seminarSubscriber Only
July 05, 2002 00:00 IST
The Punjab and Haryana High Court rejected his request to curb the media from reporting confessional statements in the Punjab Public Service...
Fri, Jul 05, 2002To fast-track justice, Supreme Court plans to go hi-tech, onlineSubscriber Only
July 03, 2002 00:00 IST
In a major technological leap, the Supreme Court is in the process of setting up a Singapore-style e-court where all proceedings can be done...
Wed, Jul 03, 2002Jaitley out just when his reforms kick inSubscriber Only
July 02, 2002 00:00 IST
If Venkaiah Naidu took over as BJP president on his birthday, Arun Jaitley left the Law Ministry on the very day his most ambitious legislat...
Tue, Jul 02, 2002EC arms itself with powers the SC was wary of givingSubscriber Only
June 29, 2002 00:00 IST
In a move that is legally controversial and fraught with practical problems, the Election Commission today assumed the power to reject the n...
Sat, Jun 29, 2002Reform is a practical matterSubscriber Only
June 27, 2002 00:00 IST
On the face of it, the recent Supreme Court judgement requiring candidates in Assembly and Lok Sabha elections to make a whole lot of disclo...
Thu, Jun 27, 2002Minority rights: Govt prepares itself in case Soli disagreesSubscriber Only
June 21, 2002 00:00 IST
Afraid that Attorney General Soli Sorabjee could, in his ‘‘personal’’ capacity, contradict the Government’s stand i...
Fri, Jun 21, 2002EC panics on SC ruling, Centre takes own timeSubscriber Only
June 20, 2002 00:00 IST
The Centre and the Election Commission are on a collision course on the question of meeting the Supreme Court’s July 1 deadline to make...
Thu, Jun 20, 2002Judges don’t judge themselvesSubscriber Only
June 15, 2002 00:00 IST
The Punjab Government sacked 46 bureaucrats last month purely because they were all appointed under the dispensation of R.P.S. Sidhu, who ha...
Sat, Jun 15, 2002J&K polls: all candidates need to come clean, special ID cardsSubscriber Only
June 14, 2002 00:00 IST
For the first time anywhere in the country, the candidates in the forthcoming elections in Jammu and Kashmir will have to disclose their cri...
Fri, Jun 14, 2002Shouldn’t Naidu’s Men be Arrested Under POTA?Subscriber Only
June 09, 2002 00:00 IST
UNDER Section 21 of the dreaded Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), anyone who meets ‘‘a person who belongs or professes to belong...
Sun, Jun 09, 2002Letting law take its course, fasterSubscriber Only
June 02, 2002 00:00 IST
THE vice president of the Chinese Supreme Court recently visited India. Law Minister Arun Jaitley enthusiastically told him about India’...
Sun, Jun 02, 2002J&K belongs to secular IndiaSubscriber Only
May 30, 2002 00:00 IST
With every instance of cross-border terrorism, from December 13 to Kaluchak, one lesson that has been driven home is that no matter how glar...
Thu, May 30, 2002Delhi 1984 will help me probe Gujarat 2002, says new judgeSubscriber Only
May 26, 2002 00:00 IST
Charges of organised violence, allegations of Government complicity and police inaction. And the fact that most of those killed were minorit...
Sun, May 26, 2002The President has become more important than ever beforeSubscriber Only
May 19, 2002 00:00 IST
The office of the President is like an emergency light. It comes on automatically when there is a crisis and goes off automatically when the...
Sun, May 19, 2002In Gujarat, keep vigilSubscriber Only
May 16, 2002 00:00 IST
The concession Narendra Modi finally made this week to let riot victims lodge individual FIRs naming culprits is no doubt a big step forward...
Thu, May 16, 2002Minority rights: Soli will tell SC what govt won’tSubscriber Only
May 13, 2002 00:00 IST
As the largest Supreme Court bench in the last 30 years hears a batch of 200 petitions dealing with minority rights against the backdrop of ...
Mon, May 13, 2002To book top Reliance staff, Govt uses a law its own panel trashedSubscriber Only
May 07, 2002 00:00 IST
The specific provisions of the Official Secrets Act invoked against Reliance officials are the very ones that were proposed to be reformed b...
Tue, May 07, 2002Trying to play fair in RS, Govt scores self-goalSubscriber Only
May 03, 2002 00:00 IST
By accepting the Opposition’s censure motion in the Rajya Sabha today and claiming that it has already taken steps on Gujarat under Art...
Fri, May 03, 2002In Lok Sabha, a new highSubscriber Only
May 02, 2002 00:00 IST
Despite all its unruly proceedings and acrimonious exchanges, the 16-hour marathon sitting on Gujarat is a milestone in the history of Parli...
Thu, May 02, 2002Chief Justice 1, 2, 3 & 4Subscriber Only
April 28, 2002 00:00 IST
About two months ago, Chief Justice Sam Piroj Bharucha created a sensation by making a rather blasphemous statement. He estimated that 20 pe...
Sun, Apr 28, 2002Short on notice, SC Bar reforms meet put offSubscriber Only
April 23, 2002 00:00 IST
The proposal to introduce a debate among candidates in the election of the Supreme Court Bar Association today suffered a setback as its exe...
Tue, Apr 23, 2002‘Gujarat is a lesson in choosing governors’Subscriber Only
April 23, 2002 00:00 IST
With Gujarat Governor and former BJP leader S.S. Bhandari maintaining conspicuous silence on the communal carnage in the state, former chief...
Tue, Apr 23, 2002GVG’s son floats reforms in apex court Bar pollsSubscriber Only
April 19, 2002 00:00 IST
Supreme Court lawyers are in a ferment over the proposal of introducing a debate among candidates in the elections of their Bar association....
Fri, Apr 19, 2002Journalism of Courage
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