M. K. Nambyar A Constitutional Visionary

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Description
I had always been keen to bring out a biography of Sh. M.K. Nambyar. Over the span of nearly twenty years, I had contacted three separate writers to draft his biography based on the material I had in my possession as well as on the basis of any independent material that could be unearthed. The difficulty was that my father was born in 1898. My eldest sibling was born in 1925, and I in 1931, therefore, both the memories and the material dated back many, many decades, and recounting or unearthing them proved challenging. Not only that, in those days, i.e. several generations back, the father rarely showed intimacy to the children, though there was no question that there was mutual love and affection. When I look at the children of today, I am amazed at the change in attitude towards one's parents. My sons will not hesitate to put their arms around my shoulders and my grandchildren often hug their parents without hesitation. But back then, it was a different world. In fact, I was forty- four years old when my father first sat down to have a drink with me and my elder brother, which was a rare instance of informality in our relationship.
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Table of Contents
1. Transcending the Tharuvaad: M.K. Nambyar's Formative Year
2. Touch of Fate: From the Mofussil to the Madras High Court
3. Taking the High Road: From Kanara to Kilpauk
4. The First Constitutional Case: A.K. Gopalan
5. The Aftermath of A.K. Gopalan and Life in the Madras High Court
6. Piercing the Dark Shadows of Preventive Detention: S. Krishnan v. The State of Madras
7. The Right to Property and Parliamentary Powers to Abridge the Fundamental Rights:
The First, Fourth and Seventeenth Constitutional Amendments
8. I.C. Golak Nath v. The State of Punjab: Laying the Foundations of the Basic Structure
9. The March of the Law: Nambyar, the Constitutional 'Colossus'
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Author Details
K.K. Venugopal