Wherever its quest for knowledge and its desire to find solutions to problems takes it, there is no reason for artificial intelligence to be unnecessarily hostile to humans.

Settling scores with political opponents through arrests and raids has been routine under the present political dispensation; but astoundingly, the Supreme Court has abetted the settling of scores this time.

All gains have been effectively undermined by a government determined to make these agencies their instruments to harass and intimidate.

It is very unfortunate that cases involving challenges to rules of electoral funding that can derail democracy have such a low priority in the Supreme Court.

At a lecture delivered on Friday, the lawyer says Gandhi would have been totally opposed to the 'undemocratic practices' being adopted by the Narendra Modi government.

From the choice of cases it considers urgent to its handling of crucial matters impacting the lives of millions, the apex court is once again inviting comparisons with its conduct in 1975-77.

In responding to criticism about his post-retirement entry into the Rajya Sabha, the former chief of justice of India has maligned and even defamed his former colleagues in the judiciary.

If we were to do an audit of the functioning of our democracy – the health of rights of citizens, the health of institutions – it is useful to divide what happened in the first 64 years and what happened over the last five.

Vital decisions and resolutions affecting the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court are being taken by the CJI in an arbitrary and informal manner – with the tacit consent of the other judges in the collegium.

In 'The Case That Shook India', Prashant Bhushan describes the debate that followed the EC granting the cow symbol to the Indira Gandhi-led Congress.

Even though the Lokpal Act was passed in 2014, the government has delayed the appointment of a Lokpal for three years by initiating an amendment that is still waiting to be passed by the parliament.

The time has come for the judges of the Supreme Court to sit together to apply their minds and devise a way for these serious documents to be thoroughly investigated.

There are three crore cases pending in lower courts, several lakh in the high courts and thousands in the Supreme Court, highlighting the need for judicial reforms.

It is extremely important in the present climate – where there is a serious attack on diversity, dissent and freedom of speech at the hands of the ruling party and the government – that the independence of an important institution like the judiciary remains untouched.