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Law & processions By A.G. Noorani
A PROCESSION has been defined by some lawyers as a public meeting in motion.
A fortnight ago, a couple of judges of the supreme...
Police conduct By A.G. Noorani
JUDGES and lawyers take huge comfort from fatuous generalisations on the independence of the police force of India, its accountability to the law and...
Party vs democracy By A.G. Noorani
EVENTS in India of late richly illustrate once again that Indian ‘democracy’ is unique among recognised parliamentary democracies. This should cause no surprise.
The...
Press and power By A.G. Noorani
NOT one biographer of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah has cared to explore one important and very instructive facet of his public life. It...
Rash of prosecutions By A.G. Noorani
FOR well over a few years, India has been ravaged by a plague of criminal prosecutions for sedition and cognate offences. Sedition has been...
War of resolutions By A.G. Noorani
LEGISLATIVE assemblies of the states in India have now belatedly discovered a weapon that can be freely deployed without harming the opponent but which...
American hubris By A.G. Noorani
“THE reality, secretly guarded until now, is … it was July 3, 1979, that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid...
Future of Kashmir By A.G. Noorani
KASHMIR’s future lies in the hands of its own people. The world outside can and must help them but it can only help so...
Democracy in danger By A.G. Noorani
THE government must have its way and the opposition must have its say. Failure to understand this fundamental truth which lies at the...
Interstate tension By A.G. Noorani
SHORT of actually waging a war with armed policemen and limited firearms, two Indian states, Assam and Mizoram, all but provided a spectacle of...