Justice Arun Mishra’s controversial tenure epitomised the worst tendencies of the current Supreme Court. He never sat alone. All his deci...
- Justice Arun Mishra’s controversial tenure epitomised the worst tendencies of the current Supreme Court. He never sat alone. All his decisions – the best and the worst – were enabled and approved by fellow judges, write Anup Surendranath, Aparna Chandra and Suchindran Baskar Narayan in Article 14.
- By ordering the removal of 48,000 hutments along Delhi’s railway tracks in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court has endangered the lives and failed to uphold the interconnected rights, of these dwellers, argues Rishika Saghal in Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy.
- Predictably, both the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party are claiming to be victim of Facebook’s censorship policy, says Pratap Bhanu Mehta on the recent controversies of political bias in the popular social networking site. But the truth is this: Censorship, whether public or private, will always invite charges of partisanship.
- The decision to drop Question Hour in the upcoming Parliament session goes against the grain of democracy. Question Hour helps the government feel the pulse of the nation, argues former Vice President Hamid Ansari in The Hindu.
- India’s GDP dipped by 23% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the previous year. But given that the numbers do not properly reflect the unorganised sector, there may be further downward revisions, says Arun Kumar in...
