Author: Samanwaya Rautray
Samanwaya Rautray
Samanwaya Rautray, editor, Nitiriti, was formerly with the Economic Times, and has covered the Supreme Court for 18 years for a number of organisations such as the Statesman, the Hindustan Times, Reuters India and the Telegraph apart from the Economic Times. She has also spent several years on the desk at the Indian Express, India Today and the Press Trust of India. You can write in to her at editor@nitiriti.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNsPoGEpKPNX3DvdGp6AGiw
The Supreme Court ban on crackers is not in keeping with the times but also needs to be implemented with missionary zeal. There is nothing anti-Hindu about the ban. Hinduism lives and breathes nature, respects diversity and enjoins followers to take care of the air, water and soil around them. There’s a reason why. The Indian civilisation flourished along rivers, reached its zenith and died alongside, possibly because this valuable resource became scarce. No one was better aware of this than the ancient Indian. Diwali Celebration Though much has been lost because we as a civilisation never recorded history, the…
The Bar Council of India has raised the crucial issue of raising the retirement age of judges in the top court from 65 to 67. Though this has been a long-standing demand of the bar and the bench, the BCI’s recent move comes in the middle of Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit’s very short term in office. Any such immediate move will result in extending his tenure as CJI for two years. Otherwise, his tenure ends on Nov 8, 2022. The legal fraternity argues that extending tenures will help in retaining the experienced judges in office in a system…
The Kerala government has moved the Supreme Court seeking court nod to have aggressive, diseased stray dogs culled amidst a spate of reported dog bite cases. Predictably enough, animal rights activists have rushed to court opposing any such move and instead suggested that other more humane ways must be first explored to ease the problem posed by strays to the human populace. Ironically, these very activists have all these years worsened the acute man-animal conflict by stubbornly resisting more humane ways of dealing with the problem and insisting that the animals be allowed to stay where they are irrespective of…
The Supreme Court has set the stage for live-streaming of cases from the top court in a ruling delivered earlier. Once the top court does so, the other courts in the country will follow if they haven’t done so yet. But is the institution ready for the unrelenting scrutiny that will come its way with the 24×7 coverage? Going by some of its recent observations in the Hijab and bonded labour cases, the institution needs to carry out a deep introspection and do a course correction before it starts beaming court proceedings live to a million homes. In the Hijab…
The Supreme Court seems to have regressed much like the rest of us in the last few years. Its earlier stance on the issue of sporting beards in school was more in keeping with the changing times which places a bigger value on privacy and choice.