To pontificate is a self-assumed privilege but not at the expense of the court system and justice, however profound the vanity.

So many things in the Babri decisions were fudged, even though the 2019 judgement was seen as liberation. We can re-write history but not ignore its fundamentals.

The nominated MP does not fit the bill on merits. A sweeping reform to ensure there is no executive say in post-retirement judicial appointments is needed before the partly fallen last bastion falls completely.

As a government falls and another one rises by the same methods of the one before and the one to follow, India's preferred response is: nothing.

Muscular governments never want to even re-examine their muscularity, lest it shows they are getting weak in the firmness of their purpose.

There cannot be a hiatus between the country's new law on refugees – the Citizenship (Amendment) Act – and the country's internationally-binding obligation to protect the human rights of people fleeing persecution.

No person's grief should be burdened with the charge that they would be responsible for the death of the executed men.

The Adityanath government's move is a thinly-veiled attempt to divert attention from police excesses.

Just as we have new judges, we also have new lawyers of considerable ability to whom the custodianship of the court, constitution and the rule of law must be entrusted.

There are six major flaws in new Citizenship (Amendment) Act which add up to a calculated violation of judicial precedent, constitutional norms and international law.

Where there is a bonafide feeling that recusal would serve the ends of justice, judges should consider this impassionately without any ego.

The governor of Maharashtra can swear in a minority government but he would be wrong to insist on a vote of confidence.

In a representative suit, no one party has the right to reach a settlement and impose it on the others.

The HC judgment is over 4000 pages long, and the evidence, which forms part of the complex mosaic of this case, is appealable in ways that do not admit to short cuts.

Independence of the judiciary does not mean independence from criticism or impromptu denial of allegations against judicial and non-judicial behaviour.

No in-house procedure can be a substitute for a sexual harassment case. There is an important question before the judiciary: Who will be the custodian of the custodians?

Will an apology bring the erstwhile British empire to its knees? It is just symbolic and a footnote in history books.

Over the last five years, it has thrived on religious intolerance, violence and mayhem.

Satyapal Malik’s logic simply doesn’t hold. It is for the state assembly to decide whether a coalition will last or not, not the governor.

The neutrality of the Union of India as statutory receiver of the disputed lands must not be compromised, nor must the officially neutral stand of the State of Uttar Pradesh.