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Saturday, October 4, 2025
TopicJudiciary

Topic: Judiciary

Dissent if it offends your conscience. Gandhi said so

Gandhi believed disobedience is duty when something is repugnant to our conscience. No matter the law.

Sabarimala temple ruling distances courts from Indians steeped in tradition

Sabarimala verdict is judicial overreach. If legislating from bench is bad enough, pontificating from it is worse.

Not Aadhaar or adultery, CJI Dipak Misra will be best remembered for his controversies

Hallmark of CJI Dipak Misra's reign is the controversies he tangled Supreme Court in.

Arrest warrant against Cyril Almeida shows why journalism in Pakistan is dangerous

Charges of treason against journalist Cyril Almeida in Pakistan is a classic act of shooting the messenger.

Good the Supreme Court hasn’t disrupted democratic process

The 50-word Edit — ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Supreme Court, protector of rights, is turning out to be a threat to free speech

Government has chosen to remain silent because many of the judicial gags on media have come in cases that raise troubling questions.

How the Section 377 ruling is linked to the problem of judges’ appointments

Hint: US Senator Kamala Harris’s grilling of Trump’s Supreme Court appointee Brett Kavanaugh can teach us something about it.

Judges who uphold equality in court shouldn’t be asking for separate lanes at toll plazas

Why should judges and other so-called VIPs not wait in line at toll plazas just like everyone else?

A lot can go wrong for Indian democracy if court proceedings are streamed live on TV

Live streaming court cases are a major risk in India, especially for sensitive cases like Ayodhya or caste reservation issues

Dear PM Modi, just 3 female judges in the Supreme Court is no cause for celebration

Women judges are routinely passed over for promotions, making it impossible for them to move into bigger roles.

On Camera

English didn’t enslave India. It was the harbinger of a new creative consciousness: A Ranganathan

Rabindranath Tagore stood apart from his contemporaries by infusing poetry and universalism into Indian nationalism, opposing chauvinism and blind obedience, wrote A Ranganathan in 1962.

Nodal officers to fast-tracking NOCs, Kerala govt’s heeding investor concerns, and it means business

As many as 21 policy reforms are under implementation following Invest Kerala Global Summit, as LDF govt works to change perception that the state is not conducive to businesses.

Army chief’s big warning to Pakistan: Stop sponsoring terrorism if you want to exist geographically

Amid continued concerns over cross-border terrorism, General Upendra Dwivedi further warned the neighbour that India will not show restraint if there is an Op Sindoor 2.0.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.