How Can We Matter

Are lawyers like mercenaries who will fight for any cause provided they get their fees? Image courtesy: Amazon In the book " India's Legal System: Can It Be Saved? ", published by Penguin on 15 March 2017, the author Fali S. Nariman, the renowned constitutional expert and senior Supreme Court lawyer who died recently on 21 February 2024 at the age of 95 years, states: "India has the second-largest legal profession in the world, but the systemic delays and chronic impediments of its judicial system inspire little confidence in the common person".   Debatable Question However, what prompted me to ask this rather controversial question about our uninspiring judicial system is something different. We regularly see a set of high-profile lawyers of the Supreme Court who always represent clients of the opposition political parties or opposition-ruled states or even criminals in their legal fights against the Union government , and who act like mercenaries (hired profes...

Prelude Writing this post brought back fond memories of my professional career as a Senior Consultant with the Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre (ADSIC) , now defunct and probably functioning under the new name Abu Dhabi Digital Authority .  It was during those six years (2008-2014) that I had the opportunity to get acquainted with the Strategic Plans of several Abu Dhabi Government Departments and also create a couple of Strategic Plans for whole-of-Government initiatives such as  Abu Dhabi Spatial Data Infrastructure (AD-SDI) Program   and  Abu Dhabi No Objection Certificate (NOC) Program . The work on Geospatial Data Contend Standards  made me familiar with the works of International Standards bodies OGC and ISO.  Reminiscing on the good old days in UAE, I would like to recall with gratitude my associations with colleagues at  GISTEC ,  ADSIC and the GPC Group .   Image Credit: UN HR Portal Edits since publishing on...

India will have to pay huge price for govt's cowardly actions: Rahul Gandhi How can we make this learned, enlightened, wise man our PM? Everyday he exhibits his immeasurable wisdom through tweets by advising the PM and exhorting us ordinary people on what to do and what not to do and how to run the country in an outstanding manner.  

I know it is a sensitive and politically charged subject. Yet "my two cents' worth". In any religion, it is a minority of religious fundamentalists that create problems for the majority of the peace loving followers of that religion. These fundamentalists are very vocal in expressing and advocating their strict, literal, and repressive interpretations of scriptures in the religion. 

This is an earnest request to the President of the BJP and to the head of RSS to reign in the fanatical and overenthusiastic elements of the BJP and RSS outfits, who are going on a suicidal mission to destroy the plural and peaceful traditions of Hinduism and Hindutva.

This may look like a Grade 10 student's exercise: In the picture, given Column A, give its meaning in Column B, and state in a single word, the quality (set of attributes, behaviors) of being Column A.

Greetings sans ( without in French) contact is the most desirable method in this pandemic era. New forms of non-contact greetings are evolving in social circles. However, India's ageless ' namaste ' is the best contactless greeting ever invented by the mankind!

India's CEO, Narendra Modi, has become a super CEO among the World leaders with his demonstrated ability of successfully steering a large nation in these challenging times. 

The common man is amused to see the Opposition leaders publicly exhibiting their ignorance of what a 'metaphor' (figure of speech) is, by taking in its literal sense what Kangana stated metaphorically about 'India getting its “real” independence' in 2014 after the BJP and Narendra Modi came to power!

The continuously evolving international political landscape is presenting India with numerous challenges. There is no time to look back and criticize the US or its NATO allies in what they did or did not do.

Today, the Supreme Court is to hear several pleas for probe into Pegasus row. Here is may take on the subject.

New York Times is openly and unashamedly, without any guilt or embarrassment, admitting that it is indeed misusing its talents and sacrificing its self-respect for the sake of selfish financial gains, befitting the portmanteau term of press and prostitute - Presstitute .

What would you call this gentleman? Ananias ! In Shashi Tharoor style, if you want to call someone a teller of untruths, but would like to do so with a bit more emphasis and flair, than may be found in the word liar, then this is the word you are looking for - Ananias !

This is an important national milestone in the development of the country and probably the most creditable achievement of the Modi government as it will touch and shape each and every person of our future generation for years to come.

In the tiny little kingdom of the Congress that is shrinking after each election, the Emperor has instilled such fear in his subjects that no one dares to tell him that the vividly shocking and sensational tweets he is sending out every day are nothing but clownish.

India is the first and the only nation in the world to have outsourced the governance of the country to an external agency.

Indian Army is afraid of not China or Pakistan . Our army is valiantly facing and fighting the enemies at the borders with total allegiance to the motherland. However, they are afraid of the backstabbers; those shameless hypocrites and traitors who stab them from behind!

Though India-China dispute is simmering in the icy-cold Himalayan borders and scores of our solders have been martyred, the whole thing pales into insignificance when you realize how China has invaded each and every city, town, and village of our motherland.  

During the 2014 elections Indians were incensed over the enduring culture of corruption at all levels of the government and this was the prime factor that helped Modi to become the PM. Now, on the eve of the 2019 elections, the opposition leaders are unable to find any major faults with Modi's governance. Lacking any concrete programs for the development of the country, the Congress party has decided to attack Modi with the same coin - a mega corruption case - in spite of the fact that Modi has an unblemished track record in public life . Though Supreme Court , after examining the relevant strategic and confidential documents, have completely ruled out any probe in the Rafale deal , the Congress President has stated that he will take the issue to the ‘ People’s Court ’! Unlike the 2014 scenario, the present situation of the Congress and the oppositions parties is such that it has become a question of the basic survival of their leaders and consequently they are desperate and frenz...