The Ghost Of ADM Jabalpur Still Haunts Us
byUnder emergency provisions no one could seek the assistance of any court in India to try and save his life, liberty and limb. Supreme…
Opinion
This Winter Search For Your DNA
by“Satire”: ( noun) ridicule, irony, etc. used to expose folly. [ The Little Oxford Dictionary.] Art Buchwald ( Washington post columnist):” You can’t make…
Hauz Khas: The Veil I Must Wear
byHere… The Ghosts of Time wander- The spirits, the Valkyries…. The grey haired baitaals….. Haunting the dead sepulchers; The aces….the cavalier… The stern-eyed chaperones……
One Week In Blunderland
byYou’re not going insane, dear reader, the world (more particularly, India) is. It needed the prescience of a Lewis Carrol to express our current…
Right to Dissent Has Constitutional Guarantee, Sedition Law Being Abused – Justice Deepak Gupta
byHolding up an incident from the life of Guru Nanak, Justice Deepak Gupta, Judge of Supreme Court brought out the irony and the fear…
‘Spectre Of Choor Dhar’ by Avay Shukla – Book Review
byAvay Shukla writes with a flair which is unmatched. A true Nature Lover, the ten stories in his book, ‘Spectre of Choor Dhar’, weave…
Violating The Criminal Justice Contract
byThe criminal justice system is based on an implicit four sided contract: the legislature shall pass the laws, the judiciary will interpret them, the…
The Word As Zeitgeist
byThose of my readers who still follow the gibberish I churn out every week will be glad to know that I am haemodynamically stable….
Who Will Be India’s First CDS?
byConsiderable commotion is going on since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on August 15 that India will have a CDS to head the Army,…
Can Shrimp Farming Sustain its Growth
byThe story of the growth of the shrimp aquaculture and industry over the last decade is stuff dreams are made of. From facing near…