1. V.R.Krishna Iyer on the case for a council to choose Judges
2.A.G.Noorani’s review of David Pannick’s book, I Have To Move My Car: Tales of Unpersuasive Advocates and Injudicious Judges.
3.The bizarre story of a journalist-cum-editor in Mangalore, B.V.Seetaram, who was jailed for defamation.
4.Why sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes in Tamil Nadu enjoys all-party support –separate slice.
5.Tarunabh Khaitan on RTI: dismantling the walls of secrecy
6.Three important books aim to bring clarity to the mostly misunderstood concept of judicial activism in India: My review of Courting Social Justice,(edited by Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks,Cambridge Univ.Press), Shylashri Shankar’s Scaling Justice and Sudhir Krishnaswamy’s Democracy and Constitutionalism in India. (OUP).
There is opposition to sub-quota for Dalits in Tamilnadu from dalit activists themselves.The Frontline story simply repeats views of one side.