Obituary

The passing away of erudite and popular leader and top lawyer Arun Jaitley has left a void in many circles as he was a man of consensus who made friends from diverse fields By Kalyani Shankar ...

Above: Saraswati Thakur with her husband DD Thakur (file picture) Saraswati Thakur, mother of former CJI TS Thakur passed away today after a brief illness. Her husband, was late DD Thakur, a we...

Shamnad Basheer, an inspiring and gifted teacher made a subject like IP less intimidating and his well-written petitions made a difference to the lives of ordinary citizens   By Prof U...

Above: Photo by Anil Shakya The demise of Professor NR Madhava Menon on May 8 has deeply saddened all who knew him personally or through his work as a writer, mentor and legal scholar. His friend a...

Above: PM Modi with the 111-year-old Lingayat pontiff Dr Shivakumara Swami in Karnataka (file picture) By Stephen David India’s oldest pontiff Dr Shivakumara Swami, who oversaw nearly 130 educa...

This legendary leader strategically transformed his tiny nation into one of the most developed and wealthiest countries of the world. Can India learn lessons from his pragmatism and discipline?    ...

This stalwart of the Indian judiciary, who passed away on December 4 aged 100, was a stormy petrel from the start By Fali S Nariman He was “the Last of the Mohicans”—an idiomatic English phr...