It was on this twenty-sixth day of November, in 1949, that we– the people of India– adopted, enacted and gave to ourselves
Constitution Day
Article 1: Union & Territory of India
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101 Zen Stories: A Buddha
On one such day, a cold night in Tokyo, Unshou decides to meet Tanzan...
August 15th, 1947: Legal Background
Poets often sang that the borders could separate the soil but for the sky. Little did they know that the Laws could be cruel at times...
We, the Progeny of Bharat
Naming ceremony is, perhaps, the most significant ritual...
Hypoxia & Right to Life
Historically speaking, the year 1918 remains a very important one for the Indians given the impact it had on their basic human rights. Among the other...
101 Zen Stories: Happy Chinaman
A bald, stout, big-bellied man with a perennial broad-smile on his face whose magnanimity and cheerfulness brought him to be known as "Laughing Buddha"...
Bhishma Pitamah & the State
Without dilating upon the historical developments of it...
101 Zen Stories: The Last Poem of Hoshin
New Year was only six days away and Tokufu was in the fall of his life...
Interpreting ‘with’ the Preamble
Since the preamble manifests the intent or high purpose behind enactment of various provisions in the Constitution, it may be used, despite being couched...
The Liar 