By Sanjay Raman Sinha One of the more ambitious attempts to overhaul India’s troubled tribunal system, the Tribunal Reforms Bill, 2026, has been passed by Parliament amid Opposition protests and without substantive discussion. The Bill seeks to restructure tribunals, standardise their administration and address long-standing problems of vacancies, pendency, short tenures and financial dependence. On…
By Sujit Bhar A protest is one of the most visible forms of democratic expression. Citizens gather in a public place, raise slogans, display placards and make their disagreement with those in power visible. But, what happens when, alongside the police personnel managing the crowd, an invisible technological apparatus begins to watch every face, record…
For a generation that prefers its popcorn over the national anthem, the government’s move to enhance the status of the national song is laudable. Apart from injecting a fresh dose of nationalism in Generation Z—as those born between 1997 and 2012 are better known and those thereafter—this push has also helped them understand the distinction…
Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant on Saturday urged the legal fraternity to remember the Constitution’s promise and to ensure justice remains accessible to all citizens. Addressing the Supreme Court Bar Association’s (SCBA) Independence Day function on the Supreme Court lawns, he said, “It is my profound privilege to be celebrating the Independence Day…
By Kenneth Tiven US President Donald Trump’s exit from a NATO gathering in Ankara, Turkey in early July became a badly written political thriller film starring the US president. In retrospect it was foolish holding a NATO meeting in Ankara with Trump in attendance, while he is simultaneously waging war with neighbouring Iran. The distance…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg There is an unwritten, deeply felt understanding among those who walk the corridors of our courts: a judicial robe is not a workplace uniform, and a judge’s desk is far more than an administrative workstation. Yet, time and again, state governments across the country attempt to measure the district judiciary…
By Inderjit Badhwar There are anniversaries that ask us to celebrate. And there are anniversaries that ask us to pause. India’s 80th Independence Day is both. Eighty years after the midnight of August 15, 1947, it is tempting to measure the journey of the Republic in the familiar statistics of economic growth, military strength, technological…
By Pawan Kumar The Constitution of India is not merely the country’s supreme legal document. Of the thousands of laws that govern our daily lives, some inherited from the colonial era and others enacted by successive Parliaments, it is the one document that allows us to understand the deeper idea of India—its aspirations, its pluralism,…
Last week offered a striking reminder that a judgment is rarely the end of a legal battle. In four significant cases, courts revisited earlier findings, overturned acquittals or reopened questions that had appeared to have been settled. Taken together, they raise a larger and more uncomfortable question about the nature of judicial certainty in India:…
Law, by its very nature, has an evolving character. The fundamental test of a good law is not merely how faithfully it preserves the social arrangements of the past, but how intelligently it responds to the changing realities of society without compromising the constitutional values on which it rests. That tension between social change and…