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- Created on 04 May 2014
(Published by India Legal Magazine dated 30th April 2014)
- Created on 10 March 2014
Anarchy is mounting in all spheres of Indian life because competitive Political Populism is conjuring up more rights at the expense of duties By Naresh Minocha
A traffic roundabout in Sushant Lok-Phase III of Gurgaon city in Haryana is aptly named Harmony Chowk. Aptly because everyone in this area is in harmony with the citizen’s de facto right to do as one desires.
Every person at Harmony Chowk, from the owner of a luxury car to a cyclist, seems hell bent on takinginnovative shortcuts, violating every traffic rule in the book. This Harmony Chowk syndrome of saying twohoots to the duty of complying with traffic rules is the apotheosis of the Indian ‘I’m-allright-Jack’ paradigm: theentire nation, now in the grip of an unprecedented “my rights” revolution fanned by politicians, judiciary, NGOsand the media, cares not a whit about the concept of “my duties”.
- Created on 22 November 2013
THE Government has been taking in stride the stinging observations from the judiciary on the functioning of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in recent years till the other day.
In April last year, Rajasthan High Court reportedly observed: "The aims and objectives with which CBI was established have beencompromised and the CBI is proving counterproductive to these objects and it is high time when the agency needs to be shut down."
Read more: CBI, from being caged parrot to wingless wonder, gasps for legal bail-out
- Created on 01 September 2012
THE disequilibrium in the country's democratic system has reduced the Executive and the Legislature to the status of a second fiddle. The extended debates in Parliament over the Lokpal Bill are a manifestation of this phenomenon.
It is the media, the civil society, mobs/public protests and the Judiciary that are calling the shots. The Executive and the Legislature are increasingly looking for the right signals from these four assertive pillars of democracy to perform their duties.
Good and rational governance has become the biggest casualty in this on-going churn within the world's largest democracy.
Read more: Usher in democratic equilibrium & good governance in 2012
