What Our Past Has Taught Us - I K Gujral
The Supreme Court Versus the Constitution - Pran Chopra
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES
Basic Structure - N R Madhav Menon
After Thirty Years
The Constitution, Parliament and the Judiciary - P P Rao
`The Doctrine′ Versus `Majoritarianism′ - Fali Nariman
The Court, the Constitution and the People - Salman Khurshid
`The Doctrine′ Versus the Sovereignty of the People - Subhash
Kashyap
The Constitution and `Due Process′ - S K Dholakia
`Due Process′ or `Procedure Established by Law′? - Ajay K Mehra
Is the `Doctrine′ the Obstacle? - P K Dave
Anomalies of the `Doctrine′ - R K P Shankardass
Federalism Revisited - A M Ahmadi
India′s Judiciary - Pratap Bhanu Mehta
The Promise of Uncertainty
A `Loose′ Doctrine - K C Pant
A Judicial Commission? - Ramaswamy R Iyer
The Supreme Court, Parliament and the Constitution - Ajit
Mozoomdar
PART TWO
The Ideal Remedy - Soli Sorabjee
A Valediction
PART THREE
Review and Response - Pran Chopra
Pran Chopra was born in Lahore in 1921, and began his lifelong
career in journalism there in 1941, in the Civil and Military
Gazette. Since then he has been War Correspondent for All-India
Radio (AIR) in China and Vietnam (mid-1940s); Guest Commentator
with the United Nations (1950); Chief News Editor, AIR (1950s);
Parliamentary Commentator for AIR and the Statesman group of
newspapers (mid-1950s to early 1960s); Resident Editor of The
Statesman, Delhi (early 1960s); Deputy and then Chief Editor of the
Statesman group (till the late 1960s); Editorial Director of the
Press Foundation of Asia (1970s); and Visiting Professor at the
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi (1980s and early 1990s).
Since then he has been a freelance journalist and writer.
He has written, edited or contributed to over a dozen books,
including The Indian Parliament: A Comparative Perspective (2003);
Political Parties and Party Systems (Sage 2003); Scene Changes in
Kashmir, India and Pakistan (2003); India: The Way Ahead (1998);
India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Tangle (1994); Future of South Asia
(1986); Contemporary Pakistan: New Aims & Images (1983); Zulfikar
Ali Bhutto’s: If I Am Assassinated . . . (1979); India’s Second
Liberation (1973); Before and After the Indo-Soviet Treaty (1971);
The Challenge of Bangla Desh: A Special Debate (1971); Uncertain
India: A Political Profile of Two Decades of Freedom (1968);
Studies in Indian Democracy (1965); and On an Indian Border (1964).
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