Few come out smelling of roses from the Supreme Court (SC) ruling that annulled the takeover of Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd (BPSL) by Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) and ordered BPSL’s liquidation, using the SC’s special powers to ensure “complete justice” under Article 142 of India’s Constitution. The successful bidder, JSPL, the Committee…
When the Constitution of India was first published, over 75 years ago, it included many artworks. Amongst them was one showing Kubera, Ravana’s brother and the king of wealth and yakshas (nature spirits), fleeing from Lanka. It is often mistaken for Hanuman burning Lanka, but there are no flames of a burning city or a monkey’s tail….
The Congress on Monday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came up with a ‘completely fake’ issue to get Parliament adjourned and divert attention from the very serious matter of Delhi High Court Justice Yashwant Varma’s conduct. The BJP members in the Lok Sabha raised the issue of reservation for Muslims in government contracts…
India’s embrace of democracy has been affirmed many times over by the ‘power of the vote’ as a lived experience. That We the People live in a republic, with no hereditary right to rule, remains far more abstract in comparison. Three-quarters of a century ago, whether democracy would endure was seen as our big challenge….
