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Alok Prasanna Kumar
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Did you know there’s a part of the Constitution that’s at least 2,500 years old?
No matter the claims of the Nazi and Communist regimes, a dictator is still one who is exercising constitutional powers in a difficult time, for a limited period. But what do we call someone who completely discards the idea of a constitution or laws limiting their rule?
02 March 2024, 21:15 IST
Did you know there’s a part of the Constitution that’s at least 2,500 years old?
02 March 2024, 21:15 IST
From Article 5AA to CAA
The framers of India’s Constitution were flesh and blood humans, with their own prejudices and feelings that were not always set aside when it came to the Constitution. The CAA simply shows that those prejudices are now on steroids.
03 February 2024, 23:46 IST
From Article 5AA to CAA
03 February 2024, 23:46 IST
Before J&K, other Princely States too had wanted their own constitutions
Articles of Faith
06 January 2024, 19:45 IST
Before J&K, other Princely States too had wanted their own constitutions
06 January 2024, 19:45 IST
Sec 6A conundrum in Assam
Section 6A was therefore the result of a political compromise, and political compromises are always messy. That doesn’t make it a bad thing or unconstitutional.
09 December 2023, 19:35 IST
Sec 6A conundrum in Assam
09 December 2023, 19:35 IST
The short-shrift to civil liberties has a long history
Gopalan, a Communist leader, had been in and out of jail for many years before Independence, though never convicted for any offence.
11 November 2023, 21:27 IST
The short-shrift to civil liberties has a long history
11 November 2023, 21:27 IST
The futility of ‘One nation, one poll’
Articles of Faith
14 October 2023, 19:54 IST
The futility of ‘One nation, one poll’
14 October 2023, 19:54 IST
A lesson from the short-lived Federal Court
Articles of Faith
30 September 2023, 19:13 IST
A lesson from the short-lived Federal Court
30 September 2023, 19:13 IST
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, still stuck in colonial era, fails women on abortion
The word-for-word reproduction of the provisions of the IPC relating to abortion in the BNS Bill is baffling and at odds with societal needs in the context of criminal justice.
27 September 2023, 20:11 IST
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, still stuck in colonial era, fails women on abortion
27 September 2023, 20:11 IST
An innovation called ‘Finance Commission’
The FC is an innovation found in the Constitution that has no precedent in the Government of India Act, 1935, or in other federal constitutions that existed then.
16 September 2023, 23:33 IST
An innovation called ‘Finance Commission’
16 September 2023, 23:33 IST
First amendment: The truth is complicated
No legal right is ever limitless, and the original Constitution did contain several grounds on which the right to free speech could be limited.
20 August 2023, 02:46 IST
First amendment: The truth is complicated
20 August 2023, 02:46 IST
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