Shobha John

2 months ago | rediff.com | Shobha John

'...an hour before he was hanged from the film Badal, 'Apne liye jiye toh kya jiye'... 'I saw eight hangings -- Ranga and Billa, Maqbool Bhat, Kartar Singh and Ujagar Singh (Dr N S Jain murder case), Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh (Indira Gandhi assassination case) and Afzal Guru.'IMAGE: Afzal Guru was hanged for his role in the December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament.

Jan 30, 2025 | rediff.com | Shobha John

''It would be difficult for us to run jails if it wasn't for murderers.'IMAGE: Zahan Kapoor as ASP Sunil Kumar Gupta in the Netflix web series Black Warrant. His warm and genial greeting over the phone belies the job he was in for decades -- assistant superintendent of police (ASP) in the dreaded Tihar Jail. Sunil Kumar Gupta's 2019 book, Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer, has been converted into a Netflix series successfully and is directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and Satyanshu Singh.

Nov 25, 2024 | rediff.com | Shobha John

'For politicians, winning the next election has become more important than economic stability of the country and broader national interest.'IMAGE: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar at a Mukhyamantri Majhi Laadki Bahin Yojana in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, October 7, 2024. Election results have increasingly become unpredictable, quite like the vagaries of the weather.

Nov 13, 2024 | rediff.com | Shobha John

'A rigid or overly broad interpretation could lead to a chilling effect on investments and growth in sectors traditionally driven by private initiative.''Entrepreneurs may fear that their assets could be arbitrarily appropriated by the State under the guise of serving the 'common good' without sufficient legal safeguards.''The judgment thus supports a more nuanced view, one that balances individual property rights with public welfare objectives.'IMAGE: The Supreme Court of India.

Nov 6, 2024 | rediff.com | Shobha John

'The ruling does not automatically mean that your house can be taken away, but suppose it blocks an expressway or a highway or such essential development, then it can be taken away as long as there is a law to support that action.'Kindly note that this image has been posted only for representational purposes.