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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicDYC legacy

Topic: DYC legacy

DY Chandrachud’s legacy is he put a fresh coat of paint on SC. It needed structural changes

Superficial steps that only burnish the CJI’s image has been a hallmark of DY Chandrachud’s changes on the administrative side of the SC.

DY Chandrachud ceded control to the govt. It took over judicial appointment process

During Chandrachud’s tenure, there was little, if any, resistance to the government’s control over the appointment and transfer process. Two major controversies highlight this.

Making sense of DY Chandrachud’s legacy isn’t easy. It’s complicated, confounding

There are 3 broad categories of Chandrachud rulings: those where rhetoric matched impact, those that were high-minded but not too impactful, and those where the impact contradicted the rhetoric.

On Camera

Savitribai Phule made space for radical women misfits. She pioneered Satyashodhak modernity

The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.