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3 weeks ago | 
outlookindia.com | Palanivel Rajan |kavitha Muralidharan |Sanjay Hegde |Harish Khare
COVER STORY As South India opposes changes like delimitation and the push for Hindi, fearing a loss of political power and cultural harm, the struggle raises larger concerns about fairness and regional rights in India BY Outlook Bureau 30 March 2025 Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services of Tamil Nadu, writes in Outlook's latest issue on how this Central government, with its proclivity for disruptive gestures regardless of constitutional norms, could...
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
tribuneindia.com | Sanjay Hegde
WHEN in a hole, stop digging further — thus goes the familiar proverb. After the Ayodhya temple judgments, Indian courts are now sought to be engaged in a frenetic digging up of ancient religious grievances of a similar nature. The underlying primary assumption is that many mosques were built upon temples that had been demolished by invaders.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sanjay Hegde |Karan Madhok |Vaishna Roy
Justice Kuldip Singh, who passed away on November 25 at the age of 92, was a colossus of environmental litigation. He carried forward the environmental revolution launched by Justice P.N. Bhagwati after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy case and the Shriram Oleum Gas Leak case in Delhi. Born on January 1, 1932, in Jhelum, Punjab (now in Pakistan), Singh received his education from Col. Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun, followed by a first law degree from Punjab University in 1955.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashutosh Sharma |Vaishna Roy |Karan Madhok |Sanjay Hegde
Congress leader Dharamvira Gandhi, a second-term Lok Sabha member from Patiala and medical professional, has renewed the push for the decriminalisation of organic intoxicants such as opium, “bukki” (sawdust produced from poppy), and marijuana. According to Gandhi, Punjab, which is grappling with a drug abuse crisis, is witnessing increasing public support for legalising softer, natural psychotropic substances as a way to address drug abuse and simultaneously revive the agricultural economy.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |Soni Mishra |Abhinav Chakraborty |Sanjay Hegde
A relative who had a fairly large collection of books once told me that he read all his books simultaneously and hence could not spare a particular book that I wanted to borrow. This was many years ago, and I remember thinking that he was a selfish scrooge who had made up a ridiculous excuse to avoid lending me the book. But now that I am older and wiser, I wonder if he had been speaking some version of the truth.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
nationalheraldindia.com | Sanjay Hegde
The Constitution of India is a compact between citizens. On the 75th anniversary of the signing of ours, we should renew those vowsSeventy-five years ago, our forefathers brought forth upon a divided Subcontinent a nation conceived as a continuation of an old civilisation. ‘India that is Bharat’ was an idea whose pledge was being redeemed in a post-colonial world. Few gave it much of a chance.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sanjay Hegde |Sushanta Talukdar |Greeshma Kuthar |Saba Naqvi
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show,” is how Charles Dickens begins his semi-autobiographical novel David Copperfield. Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, who recently retired as the Chief Justice of India (CJI), could not entertain any such doubt and would want to play the hero not only of his own life but in the lives of several others as well.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Sanjay Hegde
Column: Is it okay for courts to seek solutions from God? During a recent speech, Chief Justice Chandrachud said, "I sat before the deity to seek a solution [Ayodhya dispute]. Believe me, if you have faith, God will always find a way."“What’s the difference between God and a Justice of the Indian Supreme Court?” The answer, according to a wit in the corridors of the Supreme Court, is that God doesn’t think that he is the judge of the Indian Supreme Court.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
nationalheraldindia.com | Sanjay Hegde
Institutions will fail citizens if they lower their guard, writes Sanjay HegdeIt was 19 May 2024, a day before Ayodhya was to vote in the Lok Sabha elections. Journalist Venkitesh Ramakrishnan found himself watching a swelling crowd make its way up the steps of Hanumangarhi temple. He assumed they were all BJP voters. They looked undeterred by the sweltering heat and cries of ‘jai Shri Ram’ rent the air. The rebel in him couldn’t resist crying out ‘jai Bhim’.
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May 31, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Sanjay Hegde
The exception concerning "prohibited relationships" has been misconstrued by the HC to include interfaith unions. In a disconcerting verdict yesterday, the Madhya Pradesh High Court negated an interfaith couple's plea for protection and assistance in formalising their marriage, declaring the union of a Muslim man and a Hindu woman, even under the Special Marriage Act, as illegitimate.
