The Price Of Public Entitlement
By Sujit Bhar The level of entitled behaviour among government officials has grown to alarming proportions. Officers, who get paid through public taxes, disregard the basic rights of the very…
The Grandmother, the Grandson and the Politics of Dissent
Even as the Gandhis continue to make news, the dramatis personae have changed: the main characters are no longer the brother-sister duo, namely Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, both…
When Liberty Is Detained
By Sanjay Raman Sinha The past few weeks have witnessed a spate of preventive arrests and detention measures, accompanied by judicial interventions granting relief to those affected. Across several cases,…
The Price Of Liberty
By Inderjit Badhwar There is perhaps no greater test of a democracy than the manner in which it treats an individual whom the State considers inconvenient, threatening or dangerous.…
The Hindu Case: A Ten-Minute Hearing, A Twenty-Year Question
October 6 witnessed what was described as one of the shortest hearings before a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court—and one of the quickest disposals of a case. The irony…
Teach Our Sons Not To Attack
By Deepabali Datta Every time a girl is assaulted, we hand our daughters yet another list of dos and don’ts. The Supreme Court’s latest directions call for more patrols, driver…
America’s Circus: Trump Faces His Reckoning
By Kenneth Tiven “Hire a clown and you’ll get a circus.” That was my brother Rick’s assessment of what lay ahead for America and the world after Donald Trump’s election…
Supreme Court cancels anticipatory bail of Karnataka IPS officer in extortion case, says Lokayukta’s anti-corruption mandate makes allegations serious
The Supreme Court has set aside the anticipatory bail granted to Karnataka IPS officer Srinath Joshi Mahadev, who is accused of involvement in an alleged extortion racket operating under the…