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Liberals' Dilemma

Vol. 37, Issue No. 40, 05 Oct, 2002
GPD

The judiciary does not make a revolution. It is not its job to do so. It maintains order of sorts. If that order has to be changed, the field of action is somewhere else. The liberal dilemma consists in not being able to decide where that field happens to be or should be located.

The Speaker's Election

Vol. 37, Issue No. 20, 18 May, 2002
GPD

In spite of the anti-communal rhetoric of the opposition, Manohar Joshi walked to the Lok Sabha speaker's chair in all royal glory. To have put a Shiv Sena man in that seat right when the communal carnage is going on in Gujarat is, to say the least, a tragic mockery. The opposition has a lot to answer for.

Foreign Scholars' Participation in Seminars

Vol. 36, Issue No. 38, 22 Sep, 2001
A G Noorani

In July a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court summarily dismissed the PUCL's petition challenging the home ministry's secret memo issued in September last year on the participation of foreign scholars in seminars. However, the legal issues raised by the memo are important enough to warrant the Supreme Court being moved again to challenge not only the home ministry's infamous memo but also the human resource development ministry's circular of January this year on similar lines to registrars of universities and deemed universities.

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