Solutions to Change

by D. Dhanuraj Three incidents in the last week shocked/encouraged me to write this edition of Random Thoughts. Incident 1: I was walking to South Block to find the status update of  the application that I had submitted with MEA(Ministry of External Affairs). I was issued Gate pass and went for security check. The officer on duty told me that I could not enter the premises with the laptop that was kept in my shoulder bag. I readily agreed. Then I told them that I did not want to carry my shoulder bag also but they should allow me to keep it somewhere. "It is none of our business"; she told me. I asked her what to do then. She asked me to keep the bag in the vehicle that I came by or keep it in the hotel  where I stayed. I did not have both the options as I was travelling from Cochin in the morning flight. Then I approached the reception. They had also the same reply but tone was different; that's all. I asked the security officer whether it meant I should go back t...

By Arjun.M, Administrative Assistant, Centre for Public Policy Research                           Judicial activism can be described when the judiciary steps in to the shoes of the executive or the legislature and embarks on the works and privileges of the other two organs rather than interpretation of law. This topic has assumed immense significance because today everything from river pollution to the selection of the cricket team and even the disposal of waste has become the purview of Judicial Activism. The Supreme Court of India in a recent judgment on May 5, 2010 in Selvi v. Karnataka considered the constitutionality of the investigative  Narco analysis technique holding it permissible only when the subject consents to its use. The decision taken by the Supreme Court of India about the 9 th Schedule of the constitution deserves great attention....