Weekend Reads “The Indian Supreme Court was never perfect,” writes Pratap Bhanu Mehta , with a reference to the way the court has handled...
Weekend Reads
- “The Indian Supreme Court was never perfect,” writes Pratap Bhanu Mehta, with a reference to the way the court has handled cases of civil liberties, and Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami of late. “It has had its dark periods before. But the signs are that it is slipping into judicial barbarism in the senses described above. This phenomenon is not just a matter of individual judges or individual cases. It is now a systematic phenomenon with deep institutional roots.”
- Navroz Seervai responds to Mehta’s piece: “Speaking of the Supreme Court’s selectivity, Mehta says that claims to discourage the use of Article 32 is the ‘perfect metaphor’, demonstrating that the Supreme Court acts like there exists a state of Emergency even when there does not. Perhaps a better indicator of our collective despair lies in the fact that even an intellectual of Mehta’s stature seems to forget that Article 32 remains a constitutional refuge during a declared Emergency. If that is so, what is it that we are living through now?”
- Arnab Goswami isn’t just a face on TV. As Kunal Purohit explains, in the world of online Bharatiya Janata Party supporters, he has turned into a Hindu hero and a national saviour.
- Sugata Srinivasaraju explains the controversy...Read more
