It was around the 1430s that the term ‘modern’ was used in southern Europe’s Romance languages to show the past…
In a 2007 paper titled ‘How Policymakers View Public Opinion’, Prof Francois Petry, a political scientist, presumed that in a…
A democracy places a premium on maximising good for the maximum number of people, but what makes it different is…
In a monarchy, the source of public morality depends on the conception of monarchy itself in a given society. For…
In the previous piece, this author had raised the following questions in the process of etching the contours of public…
The debate was triggered by the Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution published in 1957 by…
There is no reference anywhere in the 18 paragraphs of H.M. Seervai’s discussion on the issue to the Constituent Assembly…
While there exists a significant amount of debate around this question, the Supreme Court has held that courts are not…
The pith and marrow of this discussion is that constitutional morality may be invoked on the basis of the provisions…
The literature suggests that the concept of ‘morality’ is drawn from the French concept of ‘bonnes mœurs’, which is understood…
There are quite a few myths that abound in relation to the Indian Constitution, in particular in relation to its…
When the ASI’s report revealed that the demolished temple’s pillars were used for the construction of the disputed structure in…