A Law Student's Contention

Image Credit: India Today The weather is tense in the political sphere with general elections just months away, also as the momentum builds up the tension is anyway going to rise. In such times of crisis, when the government is facing allegations for wrongfully benefitting an industrialist in a defense deal, analyzing the policy of the government on merit is like pushing oneself towards the vortex of the hurricane as it always entails the danger of being labeled as ‘ bhakta’. But then, of course, such things can always be skirted away from by using sheer objectivity keeping out personal biases, or so any rational mind would believe. This article does not pass any value judgment on capitalism or socialism but highlights the inconsistency in the saying and doing of present government which promised ‘minimum government, maximum governance’, and has been awarded the title of ‘soot boot ki sarkar’. Though our country adopted the policy of ‘liberalization, privatization, and gl

The hearing in the matter related to the entry of the women in Sabarimala Temple is in full swing before the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court. Looking at the mood of the court and the past track record, most probable outcome is that that this ancient ‘patriarchal’ practice of exclusion of women between the age of 10 to 50 years will be wiped from the canvas of the history as petitions against such age-old practices are admitted only after Justices are determined to restore the balance into the society by obliterating such unconstitutional and discriminatory practices which often trembles their soul. No one can argue the fact this practice which has been practiced since times immemorial discriminates between men and women. The controversy is that before entering Sabarimala Temple a 41-day penance/ tapasya is to be observed and it is believed that only after enduring these harsh conditions for 41 days continuously, one can feel the splendor of god Ayyappan. This ‘ tapas

A switch was made to democracy from monarchy when kings abandoned the divine duty of serving the people. Without this duty, only the structure of monarch remained as residue, a form without its soul. It was then that broad masses rose up in rebellion to clear away this purposeless post of 'king' and established the aesthetic edifice of Democracy. This process of conclusion of king’s dynasties is not a standalone example, whenever the spirit of the idea has been abandoned such processes have ensued to restore the essence of public service in the leaders by establishing a more efficient system. It may be argued that what happened with King’s in the past is also happening in with the contemporary democratically elected leaders i.e. democracy has lost its essence and its aim of serving the people. Democracy today has become a cliché and is taken synonymous with elections, as soon as elections are concluded the elected representative leaders are nowhere to be found betraying T

Photo Courtesy: The Quint There is a prevailing notion in the society that Judges are people belonging to the elite class of the society and are persons of academic significance divorced from the reality of the society as is often accused by the Executive wing too. The view is not far from reality and is based on logical and reasonable grounds. When just to lay down that ‘Right to Privacy’ is a fundamental right and is an integral part of Article 21, the learned Judges had to write 547 pages of sheer philosophy! not much is left to say against the ‘Academic Judges’ view. These people babble about the idea of justice and liberty as if they are themselves the incarnation of goddess Justitia. The problem is not with their babbling but with their conduct when their own interests are at stake. How they abandon these ideas and make them orphan. Some examples of Judges who after breaking up from reality and practicality also divorced from their ideas about which they bragged about

No, illogical coalitions are not the answer to the abovestated problem, well not at least in my view because the resultant mess would not be accepted by the society because they too want a stable government. Though stable government is last of their concern, their hearts will question them that for whose benefit will they work for instance a government made by a coalition between pro-Dalit party, pro-OBC party and Congress will work for the welfare of whom? Will they work for the benefit of Dalits or OBC or rather for all of them? To this, the simple answer is that they cannot work for the welfare of more than one community as no political group in India has neither the willpower to do so nor have efficient resources required for it. This unholy coalition made by sheer survival instincts will prefer not to work at all towards the welfare of anyone to save itself from being accused of discrimination and the resultant loss of traditional voter base. This is just a problem appare

As the General Elections 2019 to Lok Sabha inch closer politics is becoming more intense, unscrupulous and shrewd which makes me question the entire process. Before you decipher this article, I would like to attach a preliminary note that in no way I’m opposing the noble systems of ‘government by the people’ and I too firmly believe that it is one of the greatest systems evolved by humans after applying all the intelligence that humanity could actually devote. But I for one feel that the parliamentary system has manifested all the defects that it carries with the swings of the pendulum and instead of taking a  status quoits  position we should take a reformative approach. We defend the ideas, system, and institutions mindlessly because that is what we have learned but we forget that they were made for the ‘welfare of the people’ and have become more of a burden than an instrument of welfare. The reason is that contemporarily in our country instead of general elections,  gen

The recent appeal of the Archbishop of Delhi, Mr. Anil Couto for a ‘secular nation’ has not been taken in good spirits by the nation at large and has sparked controversy being the subject matter of much debate. In a letter where Archbishop identifies the contemporary political atmosphere as ‘turbulent’, he has in a pious request asked people of all casts and creed to observe a day of fast and offer penance for the country. As soon as the content of the letter went public, the religious leader was under attack from all the corners by people who thought that the statement was unwarranted. It did not take much time for pseudo liberalists of our country to come to his defense with initially ‘not so rightist’ political parties backing his letter solely for political mileage.  In a day or two, a well reasoned defense from the intelligentsia of this country also saw the light of the day which advocated his right to freedom of speech and expression to make such statement which is a