Letter From The Editor - (Inderjit Badhwar)

Slavery was among the greatest of social evils that afflicted the march of civilization. By and large, it stands universally abolished. On paper. But the practice continues in mutant shapes and forms....

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the ruling party’s most prominent national face after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Amit Shah, and arguably also its most polished and articulate parliament...

The cover story we have written this week probably needs to be dinned into the heads of the reading public periodically so that the message it conveys remains indelibly etched in their memory. It is a...

When we re-launched India Legal as a fortnightly magazine some two years ago, dubbing it “India’s first politico-legal fortnightly”, we were unsure how long we could maintain this special niche identi...

I return, in this space, to the wisdom of the Sarkaria Commission. Not enough can be said about the sagacity, political perspicacity, scholarship and uncanny far-sightedness of the luminaries—Ranjit S...

Should laws be honoured in letter or in spirit? This is a vexed question which has been subjected to considerable analysis ever since the evolution of the judicial process. In today’s context, the deb...

As you live by the sword, so shall you die by the sword, is an old Biblical maxim implying that your acts of omission and commission will come back to haunt you. So don’t blame the gods or anybody els...

We carry in this issue a chapter from President Pranab Mukherjee's book The Turbulent Years. It is a vivid account of a significant downturn in the vicissitudes of his political journey which culminat...

The unfolding events in Arunachal Pradesh—elaborated in detail in our cover story—point to systemic imbalances which, if not addressed by all those who care deeply about India’s functioning as a repub...

India’s Republic Day is commemorated each year with pomp and circumstance and is associated increasingly with a jingoistic display of military muscle in order to impress the potentates—last year the P...