Push for foreign universities in India will favour the rich
0The course curriculum will no longer cater to the needs of the Indian economy but will be oriented towards the requirements of the developed world. Money...
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We the people must never let freedom die
0The last citadel of freedom, the judiciary, is under attack. While the ruling class has captured all other institutions, the lone one that can protect our...
Kapil Sibal exclusive: ‘Remarks on Supreme Court simply unacceptable’
0‘A billion Indians will sustain democracy,’ India’s top lawyer in a freewheeling interview Kapil Sibal, 74, has distinguished himself as lawyer, a minister and foremost –...
Sovereignty of Parliament a myth, rule of law reality
0The power to amend does not include the power to destroy the Constitution’s basic features. Thirteen judges of the SC held this in the Kesavananda Bharati...
Deepening schism & issues that seek a national mandate in 2024
0India has changed. It is no longer the inclusive country we were born in. The dialogues of today are worrisome. If we do not stand up...
Society’s values need to be informed by a sense of justice
0I wonder why the very values of our republic that we celebrate are also the ones we choose to wantonly decimate. Politicians pretend to embrace the...
Kapil Sibal says no clarity on Congress internal polls yet, cites ‘disenchantment’ in party
0Nearly a month after Congress president Sonia Gandhi met the top party leadership and the group of 23 leaders who wrote to her, seeking sweeping reforms within the...
Listen to the voice of protesting farmers
0Farmers have low incomes, high debts, and go through great insecurity. The State must continue to support agriculture The protesting farmers want to be heard. For...
2020: When people spoke truth to power
0The year 2020 has ended and Covid-19 is getting the better of us. We have yet to see whether we can reduce the impact of its...
Tackling the rise of right-wing authoritarianism
0History has taught us that global trends often drive national narratives. The rise of the nation-state, fall of monarchies, blossoming of democratic values, end of colonialism...
Corporate-owned banks pose a risk
0The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the sentinel of our banking system having occasionally faltered as the supreme banking regulator, is often seen to be working...
UP law on love jihad seeks to divide communities
0The Ordinance also goes against the right to privacy. The state has no role to play in the personal choice of individuals in consummating a union...
When hype defeats hope: In politically manipulated prosecutions, often the innocent become the victims
0A right process invariably leads to desired outcomes. However, a favourable outcome is predicated on the integrity of the process. Take for example, investigations to establish...
An India in chains
0What needs to be curbed is the freedom with which the State seeks to legitimize the misuse of draconian laws that impinge upon the freedom of...
अमीर और गरीब के बीच बढ़ती असमानता सफल आर्थिक मॉडल का आधार नहीं बन सकता
0प्राकृतिक संसाधनों के मामले में हमें विकास के एक नए आर्थिक मॉडल की आवश्यकता है। नीतिगत उपाय के रूप में सरकारें निजी क्षेत्र को सार्वजनिक भलाई के...
The perils of an economic oligarchy
0We need a new economic model of development when dealing with natural resources. As a policy, governments have been allowing the private sector to exploit these...
जांच एजेंसियों के बर्ताव से जघन्य अपराधियों को बल मिला
0कोई भी सामाजिक अनुबंध समाज में अपराध को समाप्त नहीं कर सकता है। इतिहास ने उन अपराधियों के बीच निरंतर शत्रुता दिखाई है जो सामाजिक व्यवस्था...
Damage Uncontrol
0A targeted use of monetary policy will provide democratic relief, but GoI too has to rise the occasion.
A wake-up call for the Republic
0Only the court can withstand aberrations that make the citizen lose faith in the functioning of the state Kapil Sibal No social contract can eliminate crime...
Not one request, concern shown in letter addressed at CWC meet
0Kapil Sibal, one of the 23 signatories of the recent letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi that called for sweeping changes in the party, speaks about...
In real contempt of the Constitution
0Focus on political and institutional actors who are perpetuating illegality, through action or inaction The Supreme Court (SC) of India seeks to protect its dignity by...
With present mindset, NEP 2020 may be providing hope but only on paper
0While there is talk of educational training and skill development starting at the school level, there is very little homework done to standardise the same. It...
Mr. Kapil sibal recent interview with Hindustan times, The HC has no regard for precedent
0No court can pass any protective order for those against whom disqualification petitions are pending, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal told Sunetra Choudhury in an interview, adding that...
In a crisis, Opposition has a right to know and it is duty of government to provide answers
0The government must give answers because it is obliged to give answers, not in respect of any military strategy, but in respect of the situation on...
Mr. Kapil Sibal Statement on The term, line of actual control LAC
0The term, line of actual control, or LAC, was coined by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1956 and then repeated in 1959, and during and following...
Centre has no road map for self-reliance
0The PM recently spoke about achieving self-reliance in sectors like defence, chip manufacturing and aviation. In the absence of any plan, this is self-delusion On 11...
Court must look within, address asymmetries of justice that are causing disquiet in stakeholders
0Recent events have demonstrated that the judiciary needs to introspect. The “fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves”. There is no use in blaming the bar. In any judicial system, lawyers are hyphens between the litigant and the court.