Supreme Court
Mohan Guruswamy | Will ‘linking rivers’ work, or end up as a disaster?
The project, when completed, will consist of 30 links, with 36 dams and 10,800 km of canals diverting 174,000 million cubic metres of water
AA Edit | Focus on human angle in evictions welcome
The import of the Supreme Court order is that the government must go ahead with the mission keeping the human angle in mind
AA Edit | Siachen: Breaking barriers
In going to duty at an altitude of 4,765 metres at the Kumar Post in the Himalayas, Shiva has struck a resounding blow for women’s rights
AA Edit | Free speech paramount, leaders’ discretion must
Leaders must behave based on realisation that their words could trigger unacceptable actions by their followers
AA Edit | Demonetisation valid, but was it judicious?
The dissenting order refuses to accept this reasoning and has found the process to be suffering from legal infirmities
Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | SC leaves a lot of loose ends with demonetisation ruling
Demonetisation is mainly a policy issue, and an impartial examination of the details will show that it was done without much forethought
Aakar Patel | The caste factor and the BJP-RSS’ Hindutva politics in today’s India
The fact is that Hindutva wants Indians to worship caste, but it doesn’t want them to talk about it
Manish Tewari | Should Parliament codify basic structure doctrine?
The basic structure doctrine is a feature of modern and progressive democracy
AA Edit | Govt must not bait judges, move to evolve system first
Democracy has infinite ways of resolving issues other than engaging in grandstanding and dishing out innuendo
Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The hidden politics behind Supreme Court’s collegium
On the face of it, the collegium system is indeed untenable in principle in a democratic system. But it is not a simple issue