Cross Connections

The celebrated lawyer has refused to apologise after a Supreme Court bench held that a couple of his tweets constituted a contempt of court....

I would have been tempted to title this piece, ‘Nobody Killed Aarushi’, which has become the standard headline for media prominent st...

The other day, I was in court. I needed stamp paper for some official letter. It was a little after 9 am. A busy day had begun. Shops openin...

What exactly are some Indian judges smoking? In a 141-page judgment that sentences a watchman to life imprisonment for the rape and murder...

A big business magnate gets jail time, aggrieved investors shout slogans against him, someone throws ink as he leaves the court. The India...

The verdict is out. But this is only another beginning. Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, parents of 14-year-old Aarushi have been pronounced guilt...

It is such judgements that should make us have faith in the judiciary. Not only has it upheld secularism in Constitutional terms, it ha...

Now a dying declaration can be recorded by anyone, according to a judgement passed by the Supreme Court in its reversal of a high court verd...

The re-opening of the case yesterday against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots could prove to be a b...

We talk about corruption in India, of sycophancy, of using influence. We are ready to take those who commit financial irregularities to co...

The whole of India’s media is abuzz because Narendra Modi said, “Hang me if I am guilty”. This “candid interview” was given to Samajwadi Par...

A 15-year-old Muslim girl is permitted by the high court to marry. Forget the level of maturity of our grandmothers who did not make a cho...

'Friends of Rajat Gupta' is not the sort of thing you’d read about, much less imagine it as a movement.  But in the closed world of...

They still won’t call him a terrorist. Anders Breivik remains a “right wing extremist gunman” and, with some concessional nod of late, an “...

Would you trade justice for compensation? The idealistic mind says, no. But would a poor person have to make a pragmatic choice? In 2002. ...

...and the rest of India wants to be foreign It is shameful that the chief of a ‘nationalist’ group, the RSS, feels that India was better o...

I understand that when a politician is on a private visit to a country, he does not speak on behalf of the country. Mani Shankar Aiyar, by v...

We have seen how the 2G scam unfolded. Important people were packed off to jail. The really prominent names were not. No Tata, no Ambani. Th...

Should any person holding high rank in the government take the oath of office in the name of god, any god?  In secular India that boasts of ...