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Poisoning minds By A.G. Noorani
IN an excellent review of the great Mughal Emperor Babar’s memoir, The Babarnama, published in a leading English daily in India, the reviewer recommended...
Police & prosecution By A.G. Noorani
IN the course of the election campaign for the Lok Sabha polls, Narendra Modi warned the police, especially the Central Bureau of Investigation,...
Right to protest By A.G. Noorani
RECENT events in India have brought to the fore the dimensions of the right to protest, which is itself absolute except in cases of...
Kashmir’s future By A.G. Noorani
HISTORY has placed an enormous burden on the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) and its leaders; especially on its president, Dr Farooq...
Hindutva federalism By A.G. Noorani
INDIA’S constitution is not federal with unitary features but unitary with federal features, a British constitutional lawyer remarked. But that was shortly after it...
Judges’ lapses By A.G. Noorani
“LORD Woolf cannot quite make up his mind whether he is a liberal reformer or the shop steward for the only trade union...
Consult and decide By A.G. Noorani
SINCE Independence, India has seen many a protest, some massive. But never before has it seen such an organised, mammoth demonstration in which...
Written in blood – A.G. Noorani
UNIQUELY, Kashmir’s flag was born in bloodshed and is rooted in the region’s blood-soaked history.
The scholar and politician Pandit Prem Nath Bazaz wrote:...
Kashmir’s future – A.G. Noorani
THE National Conference led by Dr Farooq Abdullah and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led by Mehbooba Mufti have joined hands to face...
Secrecy vs justice – A.G. Noorani
THE expression ‘lifafa’ for justice has an altogether different connotation from that of a certain low form of journalism. This is not to...