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Virtual Courts may not be the Substitute to Physical Courts, but They have Come to Stay
The more we get aged, the more diffident we become in adopting the new technology or anything new because our mental blocks often come into the play. This is what we find in the functioning of the courts as most of the judges and the lawyers have been pursuing a set pattern of filing, removing…
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China’s Game to drive Wedge Between India and Nepal Must be Defeated
Pandit Arjun Prasad Bastola, a Sanskrit and Vedic scholar, who is also on the Board of Pashupatinath temple is a well-wisher of India. He once told me that relationship between India and Nepal is like warp and woof from time immemorial and that cannot be separated. Two of the most sacred shrines, Pashupatinath and Vaikunthdham…
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Life in the Time of Corona and After
Today one young man, who was standing ahead of me at the ‘Safal’, which is the retail network of fruits and vegetables in Delhi appeared to be in the forlorn mood. I overheard him talking to his friend on the other end of his cellphone that ‘ love’ and ‘dating’ have become the biggest casualty…
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Friviolous PILs Must be Discouraged
Public interest litigations (PILs) are the most innovative methods of rendering justice, where the principle of locus standi is dispensed with. It is altogether different from the adversarial system of justice and that is why it is also known as the judge made justice delivery system. However, of late it has been misused to such…
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The Man Before Mahatma: A Well Researched Book
All of us have read many articles, essays and even books on the life history of Mahatma Gandhi. His autobiography “my experiment with truth” has been one of the most popular books not only in India but throughout the world. Mahatma Gandhi himself has written that he was a ‘very timid and shy person’ in…
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Veer Savarkar: A Matchless Revolutionary
The life history of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is so touching and heart-wrenching that it moves even a stone-hearted person. The way he escaped from the ship S.S. Morea which was bringing him from Britain to India at Marseilles port of France was a hair-raising story of unprecedented courage and adventure. If the silly and stupid…
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Panic Reaction of the Supreme Court
It is very astonishing indeed that instead of taking the challenge of Coronavirus head-on, the Supreme of India has decided to work with only six benches against the usual 14 benches from Monday till further decision. The crowd in the courts and courtrooms can be minimised not by the half-hearted measures but by modernisation through…
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Public Interest Litigations are the Best Tools of Transformations
Public Interest Litigations (PILs) are the best examples of the Judge-Made laws is because it is nowhere mentioned in the statute. Now PILs have become so popular in our country that most of the High Courts and even the Supreme Court has opened a PIL branch in its registry. Why has it become so popular…
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Saga of The East India Company: From Trade to Empire
Review of the Book ‘The Anarchy’ by Parmanand Pandey The history of India during the Mughal and the British Rule had been the history of loot, plunder, rape, rapine, murder, mass killings, brutality and bestiality. It was more horrible during the British rule which, came with East India Company. Millions of people were allowed to…
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Book in the Glory of Goddess Called Cow
There are three inanimate and most revered ingredients of Hinduism and they are the Gai (Cow), the Ganga, and Gayatri. The importance of all three has been described in the Hindu scriptures. While the Gai and Ganga are worshipped in the mundane form and Gayatri mantra serves as the means of spiritual exaltation. Hinduism is…