SOUTH Asia has been greatly remiss in not acknowledging its debt to a jurist who single-handedly inspired a revolution in constitutional law. He was Prof Dietrich Conrad, head of the law department at ...

Former Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Nariman on Monday spoke in defense of the basic structure of the Indian Constitution, stating that if it is ever overridden, it would be disastrous for the ...

On April 24, 1973, the Supreme Court of India declared that Parliament did not have the power to amend certain aspects of the Constitution, its “basic structure”. The Kesavananda Bharati judgement, as ...

The story so far: Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar’s recent public criticism of the judiciary and remark that courts cannot dilute “parliamentary sovereignty” sparked a debate ...