While judge Ravindra Pandey favoured women speaking up against abuse by powerful men, judge Dharmendra Rana reiterated sedition law can’t be used randomly.
In 2012, I wrote about the first surrendered Naxal to undergo reverse vasectomy and 'reclaim the right to fatherhood'. Last month, I learnt he still couldn’t bear a child.
Market economies seeking private investment don’t function well without autonomous institutions, checks on executive excess, and freedom to express opinion without fear.
India is lagging behind other countries in its vaccination efforts due to the government's 'control freak mindset', argues Shekhar Gupta in episode 686 of ThePrint's 'Cut The Clutter'.
While the Bengali bhadralok's support to the Left came riding on an anti-Congress mindset, their honeymoon with CM Mamata Banerjee's TMC was also brief.
Voices sympathetic to Pakistan are advocating a reset of US-Pakistan relations, setting aside the bitterness of the past. But Americans should be wary of it.
An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.
Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
There is something wrong with the title. Supporting freedom of speech is being ‘conservative’ – in the traditional sense. The notion that people should be silenced if they hold the ‘wrong’ opinions is the new liberalism aka being woke.
I don’t see the dichotomy between conservative and liberal in these judgements. What I see are proper application of the mind. The well thought out statements put forth by the judges should be able to convince a conservative or liberal about the merits of the judgement and not just as the leanings of the judges or courts.
There is something wrong with the title. Supporting freedom of speech is being ‘conservative’ – in the traditional sense. The notion that people should be silenced if they hold the ‘wrong’ opinions is the new liberalism aka being woke.
I don’t see the dichotomy between conservative and liberal in these judgements. What I see are proper application of the mind. The well thought out statements put forth by the judges should be able to convince a conservative or liberal about the merits of the judgement and not just as the leanings of the judges or courts.