MY HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO THE FRAGRANT MEMORY OF FALI SAM NARIMAN

February 22, 2024

“Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your...

Indo-British relations–the quantum leap from Elizabeth 1 to Elizabeth ii

January 23, 2024

On 8th September, 2022 at 4.30 pm GMT, Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning British monarch, passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle, her royal estate in Aberdeenshire, nestled deep in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, at the age of 96. Significantly, Britons all across the world had celebrated her...

SARDAR PATEL – THE GREAT CAPTAIN WITH A MIND OF STEEL AND VISION

November 1, 2023

On 31st October, 2023, India and the world will be celebrating the 148th birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of independent India. Patel, the monumental lawyer, philosopher, scholar, statesman and political leader, universally known as the “Iron Man of...

INDO-US RELATIONS – THE VOYAGE FROM THE NEHRU-KENNEDY SPIRIT TO THE NAMOBAMA MANTRA AND WELL BEYOND

June 20, 2023

The genesis of India’s relationship with the United States of America can be traced back to 19th November, 1792 when the first American President George Washington nominated Benjamin Joy of Newbury Port as the first American Consul to Calcutta. But Washington’s move was ill timed as the then Governor General...

Fake news and the legal angle

October 7, 2022

Fake news” is the catch phrase of the day! Fake news is a genus of “yellow” or “synthetic” journalism that encapsulates deliberate disinformation or hoaxes spread via conventional print and broadcast news media or online social media. In February, 2018, the BBC defined fake news as “false information distributed deliberately, usually for political or commercial purposes”. Fake news, although...

THE TRAGIC DEATH OF LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI AND THE MYSTIFYING NETAJI SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE ANGLE

September 30, 2022

The unimpeachably honest 5 feet 2 inches tall mighty second Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2nd October, 1904 in Mughalsarai, officially known as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar, a small but bustling railway town close to Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Shastri’s birthday happily coincides with...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ITS SECURITY AND REGULATION

September 29, 2022

23rd October,2019 was a red letter day in human history when American Special Operations Forces carried out a daring raid codenamed “Operation Kayla Mueller” that killed the “crying, whimpering, screaming” self-proclaimed Caliph of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in his own secret hideaway in the outskirts of Barisha, in Northwest Syria....

INDO-BRITISH RELATIONS – THE QUANTUM LEAP FROM ELIZABETH I TO ELIZABETH II

September 10, 2022

On 8th September, 2022 at 4.30 pm GMT, Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning British monarch, passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle, her royal estate in Aberdeenshire, nestled deep in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, at the age of 96. Significantly, Britons all across the world had celebrated her...

REMEMBERING DR. SARVAPALLIRADHAKRISHNAN THE TEACHER EXTRAORDINAIRE

September 7, 2022

The 5th of September is a red letter day inasmuch as India and the world are celebrating the 134th birth anniversary of Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, the second President of India who was a monumental philosopher, educationist, scholar and statesman of international repute. To ‘begin the beguine’, I am highly emboldened...

JUDICIARY UNDER ATTACK

September 6, 2022

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru once remarked, ‘Events crowd in upon us in such quick succession that we are apt to miss their true significance.’ This is particularly true of the most unhealthy drift of events in the Supreme Court of India in recent times. The customary reverence formerly paid to judges...