Judge's Potpourri

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Description
The panorama of topics covered by this miscellany is considerable. I am sure my vagarious views are sometimes provocative and hostile to the traditionalist. Nevertheless, democratic divergence of thought is an experiment which is promotive of cultural diversity and so it is that I have ventured to indulge in this game, perhaps goofy, knowing that India which had been the nidus of great thought and sublime world view, is now under colonial moulding of minds West-conditioned materialist mono-culture and commercial victimology. John Pilger has called this mental syndrome a Cultural Chernobyl and states thus:
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Contents
•    Is there Life after Death?
•    Life after Life
•    Humanity Sans Divinity is Democracy Sans Dignity
•    Why this Negation of Education for Have-not Humanity?
•    The Role of the Police in a Welfare State
•    A Student March, Judicial Writ and Police Violence
•    Slavery in Disguise
•    Best (?) By the best only?
•    Nehru to Narasimha—Dollar Victory over Poorna Swaraj
•    Do we submit to quasi-colonial surrender? Never!
•    Freedom at midnight and the Semi-centenary thereafter
•    What a Fall My Countrymen!
•    Capitalist Marxism, Colonial Camouflage and Developmental Baloney
•    Choice of Governors—Parameters and Processes
•    The Ayodhya Imbroglio: Can the Supreme Court cut the Gordian knot?
•    Evolution from Matter to Mind and Beyond
•    Water, the Greatest Gift of Life and the Harshest Millennial Crisis
•    The Indian Banking Sector and Peoples' Financial Security
•    Ten Commandments of Higher Education
•    Our Myriad-Minded Shakespeare
•    There was no Hidden Agenda, I May Assure You Sri Nariman
•    Rajeev Gandhi—An Odd Appreciation
•    The Balachander Phenomenon
•    Prohibition—A Congress Creed, Travestied by Kerala Premier
•    Glimpses from memory of Kerala's Histo-Geo symbiosis
•    People of Plachimada vs. Corporate Power of Coca Cola
•    Vincent Panikulangara vs. V.R. Krishna Iyer
•    Indira Nehru Gandhi vs. Raj Narain
•    Speech by Mr. Justice V.R. Krishna lyer on the occasion of assuming
      office on 2nd July, 1968
•    Address Presented to Hon'ble Shri Justice V.R. Krishna lyer on his retirement
      from the Supreme Court of India
•    A letter from Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer on Demitting Office
•    Statement issued by Justice V.R. Krishna lyer
•    Letter to Chief Justice
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Author Details
Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer born on 15th November, 1915, in northern Kerala and educated in Annamalai and Madras Universities, practiced law and defended peasants and workers against the exploitation of the feudal lords who had lull support of the colonial regime. In 1956 Mr. lyer was elected initially to Madras Legislative Assembly and later, after reorganization of States, to the Kerala
Assembly, where he was chosen as Minister in charge of important portfolios like Home, Law, Social Welfare and Irrigation. He was appointed judge of the Kerala High Court in July 1968 and becamethe Member of Indian Law Commission two years later. In 1973, the Supreme Court of India beckoned him where he played an important role in an era of judicial activism, public interest litigation,
affirmative action through Courts and a wide ranging exercise of judicialreview for which the Indian Judiciary is being hailed throughout the world today. Though his tenure in the Apex Court was relatively short, he managed to make a lasting impression on public mind. He is the author of numerous books and has penned innumerable articles and is a leading member of several social organizations and professional bodies. Mr. Justice lyer is an Honorary Visiting Professor of the National Law School and a promoter of its Community Law Reform Programme. He has been honoured with several coveted awards and distinctions from various organizations around the world. He is the only Indian Judge on whom three doctoral thesis have been written by the scholars in three different Universities.
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