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Judiciary's Role & Power; Vital for good governance

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There has been for long a serious debate about the Judiciary's powers and whether it is going beyond its reach of interference in the powers of the Government. It is no secret that ruling parties have resented judgments of the apex court when these go against governmen...

Pickpockets..!

Wrote this while in college, and remember my mother typing it out for me for my college mag. Fished it out, and while reading it, find that nothing's changed: He was being chased by a mob. He jumped from platform three to platform four just as a train came in, and s...

Edifice of judicial independence is collapsing

Weak courts and strong executive mark Indian democracy
The downgrading of the credentials of India's constitutional democracy has been a subject of severe domestic and global critique in recent times. Nevertheless, the Indian diplomatic positions in the global fora continue to emphasise upon its track record as a vital con...

Modi-Xi Summit: Form over Substance

Optics are perfect. Mammalapuram heritage city. History of trade with ancient China is here. Indian PM in Tamil attire and Chinese Premier in Western attire are looking great too. Handshakes and smiles abound. Third direct meeting between the leaders after Sabarmati ba...

Torn Pants..!

It lay fallen a little distance from the clothesline that held my clothes. I walked over and looked at it, they were certainly not mine; gaping holes stared back at me, and these were not the tears carefully made by a tailor, as many modern pants have, but those that c...

Transparency - The magical Word

This country should be made aware of the 'whys' to this turmoil in the Valley, and to those uncontrollable cries for azaadi. Barring historians and social scientists, the rest of India or even the world has no clue about Kashmir's history. Facts have been cleverly bur...

Bank frauds continue to rock India

Yet another bank fraud has rocked the nation. This time it is the Punjab Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (PMCB) scam that involves Rs 11, 617 crore skimming depositors monies, so much so, the RBI had to intervene and impose a withdrawal limit of Rs 10,000 per customer ( i...

There's No Place Like Home..!

A few years back I'd gone to spend a month in Europe. It had been an exciting trip and I'd made many friends and visited wonderful places but when I boarded the Alitalia flight back home, there was an incredible childlike ecstasy like nothing I'd ever experienced befor...

One nation, one language-an untenable proposition

A needless controversy was created by the Home Minister with a tweet that Hindi should be made the single national language to unite the country. The television channels and social media buzzed with debates on the feasibility and desirability of the idea of 'one langua...

Reach The Unreachable Star..!

We all have a dream don't we, something so lofty, so seemingly impossible that the world would laugh if they even knew what it is: But listen with me to the words of the 'Impossible Dream': sung by Don Quixote De La Mancha. To dream the impossible dream, To fight the...
 

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