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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicConstitutional rights

Topic: Constitutional rights

SubscriberWrites: When the Constitution speaks, why ask again?

A Presidential Reference seeks clarity where none is needed—risking constitutional certainty for political ambiguity.

‘Need to engage with Constitution, not worship it’ — Arghya Sengupta on ‘The Colonial Constitution’

Arghya Sengupta, founder of Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, discussed his book with Fali S. Nariman & Shekhar Gupta, said it's a call to think about new constitutional ideas for India.

Constitutional or just statutory? Your right to vote & why its status is contested

In a judgment Monday, SC said it was paradoxical that democracy is a basic feature of the Constitution, but the right to vote is not a fundamental right.

Mumbai’s Government Law College wins grand finale of ConQuest 2020

The preliminary rounds of the quiz had more than 600 students from colleges across India participating, after which were four knockout rounds. Eight teams made it to the finale.

When creativity dies, values of civilisation corrode: CJI Dipak Misra

Full text of M.C. Setalvad Memorial lecture delivered by CJI Misra in New Delhi.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

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.