By Inderjit Badhwar Justice is often imagined as a grand constitutional ideal—blindfolded, balanced and impartial. Yet, for millions of Indians navigating the legal system, justice is experienced in a far less abstract form: as waiting. Waiting for a hearing. Waiting for a trial. Waiting for a verdict. Waiting for closure. This week’s cover package examines…
By Sujit Bhar The electoral setback suffered by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the recent assembly elections in West Bengal has opened up a crisis far deeper than a simple defeat at the ballot box. Political parties recover from electoral reverses all the time. What they find much harder to recover from is a crisis…
By Pawan Kumar The government of India’s recent approval of the appointments of Justice Sheel Nagu, Justice Shree Chandrashekhar, Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, Justice Arun Palli, and Senior Advocate VS Mohana to the Supreme Court marks a significant moment in the evolution of India’s judicial system. Acting on the recommendations of the Collegium headed by the…
By Kenneth Tiven The D-Day invasion of Europe began on June 6, 1944. As Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, America and much of the free world held its breath. Eighty-two years later, the memory of that extraordinary act of courage remains a benchmark for leadership, sacrifice, and democratic resolve. The men who fought…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg The Indian judiciary has long wrestled with a paradox. While the maxim “justice delayed is justice denied” remains a cornerstone of legal philosophy, courts have also cautioned that “justice hurried is justice buried”. The challenge has always been to find the balance between thoughtful adjudication and timely delivery. The Supreme…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha India’s online real-money gaming industry suffered its most significant legal setback in decades when the Supreme Court, in two landmark judgments delivered on May 27, effectively dismantled the legal framework that had enabled the sector’s rapid growth. In rulings that strike at both the legality and economics of the industry, the…
By Dr JP Singh “The future of humanity may well depend upon its ability to move beyond the limitations of its inherited identity towards a conscious humanity rooted in freedom, compassion, self-awareness, and direct experience.” I do not see science and spirituality as opposing realities. To me, they are two pathways through which the same…
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried a bag of toffees for his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, he knew the gesture would grab headlines. Dubbed as the story of the three M’s—Meloni, Melody and Modi—the Parle toffee bag broke the internet. People back home rushed to the nearest store to grab the toffees which, till Modi…
When the Supreme Court was approached over the deletion of more than 65 lakh names from draft electoral rolls ahead of the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, the controversy was never merely about numbers. The petitioners—led by the Association for Democratic Reforms and other civil society organisations—presented the issue as one of constitutional urgency. They alleged…
The Supreme Court has held that statutory amendments enhancing royalty rates under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, will prevail over pre-existing contractual arrangements, ruling that royalty is payable at the rate applicable on the date of actual dispatch or removal of minerals and not on the date of auction or execution…