In Conversation with Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal

The 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...
The 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...
‘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 –...
The 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...
India 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...
I 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...
Nearly 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...
Farmers 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...
The 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...
History 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...
The 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...
The 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...
“I am a worried citizen, a worried congressman, worried for the future of this country. Understand whom you are pitted against!” – the Kapil Sibal interview...
A 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...
Since there is no forum to express my views, I am constrained to express them publicly. I am a Congressman and will remain a Congressman and...
What 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...
प्राकृतिक 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...
We 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...
कोई 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...
A targeted use of monetary policy will provide democratic relief, but GoI too has to rise the occasion.
Only 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...