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  Poisoning minds

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on January 24, 2021

  IN AN excellent review of the great Mughal emperor Babar’s memoir, The Babarnama, published in a leading English daily in India, the reviewer recommended that...

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  Police and prosecution

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on January 17, 2021

  IN THE course of the election campaign for the Lok Sabha polls, Narendra Modi warned the police, especially the Central Bureau of Investigation, that one...

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  Consult and decide

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on December 13, 2020

  SINCE independence, India has seen many a protest, some massive. But never before has it seen such an organised, mammoth demonstration in which old as...

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  India’s democracy

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on December 07, 2020

  IT IS not fashionable to cite old classics. But if one turns to Roman, Greek and, more so, the English classics, one is struck by...

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  Congress in crisis

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on November 29, 2020

  ‘PARLIAMENTARY government, as it is understood in the UK, works by the interaction of four essential factors: the principle of majority rule; the willingness of...

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  Right to travel

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on November 22, 2020

  IT IS unwise to treat lightly brazen abuses of power to stop citizens from exercising their right to go abroad. The case of Altaf Ahmad...

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  When judges talk

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on November 15, 2020

  It is established that even an intemperate attack on a judge does not constitute contempt of court if his speech or conduct was a public...

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  Kashmir: written in blood

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on November 08, 2020

  The people of Kashmir have the right to decide their own future, writes AG Noorani UNIQUELY, Kashmir’s flag was born in bloodshed and is rooted...

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  Activism and restraint

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on October 18, 2020

  FOR a judge to seek to be wiser than the law is to do the very thing forbidden by wise laws. But judicial activism has...

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  Secrecy vs justice

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on September 28, 2020

  THE expression ‘lifafa’ for justice has an altogether different connotation from that of a certain low form of journalism. This is not to say that...