The Day After COVID
Covid-19 has cut a big swathe through human civilisation, if we call it that anymore after what happened in Washington and what has been…
The Jurisprudence of the Self-Goal
In my last post (The Farmer’s Protest Does Not Require A Judicial Intervention, Jan. 9, 2021), while hoping that the Supreme Court would keep…
The Farmers’ Protest Does Not Require a Judicial Intervention
The Supreme Court cannot be a broker of peace between the farmers and the central government. There is no politically correct way of saying…
Too Much Democracy, Mr. Kant, or Too Little ?
So now we finally know why the Modi govt. has messed up the Farm Bills issue big time: it has advisors like Mr. Kant…
Book Review — The Forester’s Dilemma
In Pursuit of a Man-Eater by Suneet Bhardwaj Ruskin Bond had once remarked that India has more writers than readers. That, I feel, is…
Dilli Chalo ! — To The Borders of Democracy
In Mr. Modi’s New India coming is as difficult as going, as the chappie told the sexologist. When I came up to the mountains…
Prioritising the NRI Vote Alone Is Discriminatory
It is no secret that an overwhelming proportion of the Indian diaspora abroad roots for Mr. Modi, mesmerized by his hallucinatory vision, “Sholay” persona,…
Poetic Justice
I am afraid we have been most unkind to our judges these past few days, accusing them of lacking in both humour and the…
The Puranikoti Diaries (2) – Seasonal Visitors
By the middle of June this year I knew I had to do a Mohammad Bin Tughlaq i.e leave Delhi; not for Daulatabad (…
Kunal Kamra and the Elasticity of Justice
The question goes like this: Question: What is contempt of court? Answer: A joke. That’s literally true in the India of today: three jokes…