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A Taste for Trouble: Memories from Another Time
AN EASY TO READ, ANECDOTAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF ONE OF INDIA’S BEST-KNOWN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS. ANIRUDDHA BAHAL has spelt trouble for the Establishment for as long as he can even remember. As a boy of barely fifteen, he ran away from home, all the way from Allahabad to Bombay—returning a week later, chastened and penniless, but with valuable lessons learnt. As a journalist, he transformed the definition and boundaries of reporting with the risks he took and the stories he chased down. And he paid the price for it. As a writer, his first novel won him international recognition— as well as the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, handed to him by no less a personage than Sting. As an entrepr...
Judicial Review: Process, Powers and Problems
Discusses Upendra Baxi's role as an Indian jurist and how his contributions have shaped our understanding of legal jurisprudence.
Prism Me a Lie Tell Me A Truth: Tehelka as Metaphor
In March 2001, the website Tehelka broke Operation West End, the biggest undercover news story in Indian journalism. Using spycams and masquerading as arms dealers, Tehelka's reporters infiltrated the Indian government, bribed army officers, gave money to the president of the ruling party and the defence minister's close colleague right in the defence minister's residence. This eventually forced both the ministers'resignations. In a rigorously researched and searing authentic account of the Tehelka expose and its aftermath, Madhu Trehan does a forensic study of the imperatives at the root of it, the characters and heroes and villains of the story, and of how the system got back: by obfuscating, by attempting to destroy the investors without leaving any footprints. In the style of Rashomon, the story is related by numerous participants of the same incidents and, of course, none of the stories tally. With exhaustive personal interviews, this is a must-read for anybody who wants to understand modern India - or even better, modern international journalism.
A Qualified Hope
Examines whether the Indian Supreme Court can produce progressive social change and improve the lives of the relatively disadvantaged.
The Other Side of the Mountain
An authoritative, forthright and thought-provoking narrative that attempts to analyse why the Congress lost the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and also focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the Bharatiya Janata Party and other political parties, besides dealing with crucial issues having a bearing on the country’s future. As a former minister who has held important portfolios in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government, Salman Khurshid has witnessed crucial behind-the-scenes developments that have had a profound impact on the destiny of the nation. Beginning with the reasons for the rout of the Congress in 2014, including the series of scams that sealed its fate, he goes on to po...
The Foresighted Ambedkar
‘A great man in Indian politics’ —Dr Ram Manohar Lohia on Dr Ambedkar Dr Ambedkar’s role in the cause of social emancipation has been researched and written about extensively. His part in the drafting of the Indian Constitution between 1946 and 1950 has also received considerable attention. In The Foresighted Ambedkar, Anurag Bhaskar argues that India’s Constitution was drafted not just between 1946 and 1950 but over the course of four decades. Dr Ambedkar was the only person to have been involved at all the stages related to the drafting of the Indian constitutional document since 1919. These stages bear the imprint of his contribution and role. This book seeks to focus on Dr Ambedkar’s influence on the Indian constitutional discourse from 1919, when he entered public life, until the actual writing of the Constitution and even beyond. Covering the different constitutional moments as and when they happened, it highlights Dr Ambedkar’s role in those moments. A seminal work of intellectual and constitutional history, this volume demonstrates why Dr Ambedkar is rightly called the ‘Father of the Indian Constitution’.
Factory Resets of Governance Rules - Democracy for the People
About the Book: Our constitution, devised between 1946 -1949 for a highly feudal country of 350M people - illiterate (84%), desperately poor (75%) and hurting (a bloody partition of two important British Provinces), has served very well to entrench democratic values in the decades thereafter. The emerging middle classes succeeded in ‘compelling and bending’ the polity (through 120+ amendments) to create self-serving structures leaving a vast majority of our compatriots ‘out in the cold’, nay, heat and dust of tropical Bharat. A ‘modified monarchy’, that now masquerades as “Democracy”- where The Executive has come to overpower all other organs of the state, needs to be “Fact...
Criminalization
Criminalization: Politics and Policies provides a thorough analysis of the relationship between politics, policies, and criminalization. Through diverse perspectives and scholarly essays, it explores the multifaceted issues in criminal justice, law, and governance. The book scrutinizes the impact of law, society, politics, and penal populism on criminalization across legal systems, advocating for a reassessment of criminal law's scope. It delves into the prevalence of resorting to criminalization for social issues, urging for a critical review. Additionally, it examines the normative foundations of criminalization, addressing 'over'-criminalization and exploring its empirical and normative a...
A Podium on the Pavement
Articles predominantly on the socio-political conditions of India post 1977.
LEADING CASES Supreme Court Paper IV Advocate-on-Record (AOR) Examination of Supreme Court
NOTE ABOUT BOOK This book addresses for aspirant advocates for Advocate-On-Record (AOR) Exams of Supreme Court of India. The aim is to explore the various case laws related to Supreme Court for AORs. The book consists of a compilation of sixty four cases. The leading cases includes His Holiness Keshvanand Bharti Sripadagalavaru Vs. State of Kerala (1973) 4 SCC 225, Menaka Gandhi Vs. Union of India (1978) 1 SCC 248, Minerva Mills Ltd. & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors. (1980) 3 SCC 625, Sharad Birdhi Chand Sarda Vs. State of Maharashtra (1984) 4 SCC 116, A.R. Antuley Vs. R.S. Nayak & Anr. (1988) 2 SCC 602, Kihoto Holohan Vs. Zachillhu & Ors. (1992) Suppl (2) SCC 651, Indira Sawhaney & Ors. Vs. ...
