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When the Judge Turns Politician

Poonam Sharma Recent speculation that the successor to Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, Justice B.R. Gavai, may join politics after retirement and could join the Congress has reignited a serious debate on judicial neutrality and…

Those dark days should never return

It has been 50 years since the Emergency was imposed in the country on 25 June 1975, but the memories of those dark days are still fresh in the mind. During that period, the movement of Shri Jai Prakash Narayan was at its peak. On June…