What a Jagged Little PIL: The People’s Court at 75
The original promise of the PIL from the 1980s, based on social justice, has devolved into a confused and intimidating jurisprudence
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The Supreme Court at 75: Stories new and old
This Independence Day weekend, dip into a series tracing the embattled origins, testy adolescence and fraught adulthood of the top court
19th Aug 2024
More75 Years of the Supreme Court
Gulnar A. Mistry
Trial by Cinema
How a handful of films have challenged the onscreen notion of Indian judiciary as an infallible arbiter of justice
Freedom of Speech and Constitutional Nostalgia
A look at one of the SC’s earliest landmark decisions and its fallout warns against an uncritical veneration of our constitutional past
Justice In Circles
How architecture, history, and tradition inform the duality of Indian courts
Justice Kania’s inaugural speech on the establishment of the Supreme Court
In his inaugural address, the first Chief Justice said that the new Court would stay away from the ‘spirit of formal or barren legalism.'
Celebrating 75 years of the Supreme Court
In the 75th year of the Supreme Court, we are introducing a special series showcasing the institution through a cultural and critical lens