Former philosophy professor Roop Rekha Verma, over 76 years of age, seen in this clip distributing pamphlets to promote communal harmony was one of the petitioners in the Bilkis Case. The idea of India survives because she still has daughters like her!
Supriya takes down Surya with class. In another speech it was Scindia. She proves that you don’t have to raise the decibel levels or be unpleasant to fell an opponent!
When Indira wanted to attack East Pakistan, Manekshaw vetoed “Sweetie”, even offered to quit. Was suicidal to embark upon a monsoon time attack into a riverine terrain! The rest is history. Thank god those in charge of our forces were not yes man & cheer leaders of our netas!
Last Christmas I was bitterly trolled by the Right Wing for pointing out how Swami Vivekananda’s tradition of celebrating Christmas has been continued by his Belur Math! So this year and every year I will remind you the same! Deal with it and have a great Xmas Day!
Philosophy Prof Roop Rekha Verma, former VC, then aged 76, seen in Uttar Pradesh distributing pamphlets alerting people against hate. She also stood surety for Kappan. Uttar Pradesh has surprised the nation in the past. Who knows , it might again. ☺️
Yet to meet a person as upright as Muralidhar J. His chamber was his blue Maruti Van parked in the SC parking lot. The immediate effect of his midnight hearing was saving 20 lives. The long term effect was bringing to a halt the Delhi Riots. I am sure he has no regrets!
India as symbolised by the original Sarnath Bell Capital and Modiji’s Lions
Pic 1: Old India: strong, confident and hence endearing ☺️
Pic 2: New India: angry, insecure and hence vengeful 🙁
As Justice Kureshi retires he says that the Government’s displeasure at his having passing an adverse order against it is the greatest certificate of judicial independence he could get!
Amazing Grace!
Schindler’s List is a film where a Nazi high ranking person comes to a factory trying to help the war effort and asks for the list of workers to determine whether any undesirable minority has been included in the same. You can watch it on Amazon.
During 1962 Sino-Indian War, Laxman caricatured Nehru’s impractical idealism in a cartoon.
The cartoonist received a call from the PM.
“Mr. Laxman, I so enjoyed your cartoon this morning. Can I have a signed enlarged copy to frame?"
In the last 60 odd days of lockdown this is the first visual I am seeing of migrants being chased to be given food and not the other way round! Wahe Guru! 🙏
Sanjay Hegde submits to Karnataka HC-this is not a case of “essential religious practice” but a case of “essential education for all our girl children irrespective of what food they eat and what clothes they wear”!
#KarnatakaHighCourt
As India votes, sharing thread on 10 lawyers who fought the good fight to save the constitution! It’s not in any order of ranking. There might be many more. Feel free to add on! I would call them “Warrior for the Constitution”.
1. Mihir Desai, lawyer for Sudha Bharadwaj.
Ha ha ha ha. Make it membership wise. Being the world’s largest party, the share will come down even more. Wait, why not make it per WhatsApp University graduate, then it would be negligible!
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Electoral Bonds per Lok Sabha MP and Party Wise in last 5 years
BJP : 20.03 crore/MP
Cong : 27.3 crore/MP
AITC : 73.68 crore/MP
BJD : 70.5 crore/MP
DMK : 79.69 crore/MP
BRS : 200.43 crore/MP
YSR : 20.13 crore/MP
TDP : 110.3 crore/MP
Hope this will give you better clarity
An old delhi Sardar prof couple had been cheated by a property seller. I filed a suit & warned them it could take ages. On day 1 the judge asked defendant to be present & invoking OXR1 virtually crossed examined him and got him to admit liability. She comes to the SC next week!
Husband in Court via VC
Wife unaware comes into room, asks “Sunno, Cooker ki Siti kitne baji”
Husband embarrassed tries to signal spouse to quieten down
Judge says from the screen “Madam teen” !
3000 crores is needed by Serum Institute to ramp vaccine production! That’s a lot of money for the Govt to just give away like that.
15 percent of the total 20000 crores Capital Vista project can be funded with that kind of money!
‘Operation Safe Homecoming’ launched by India on 26.2.11 evacuated its citizens fleeing from the Libyan Civil War.
It ended on 5.3.11 after evacuating 15000 stranded Indians. That fellow was truly Maun-Mohan. No ministers bhashans on planes, no media PR.
Budduram!
In prison Sudha helped hundreds of prisoners by writing their bail applications. When she wrote to the Legal Services Authority to improve the pay for legal aid lawyers she was asked, “you want a lawyer urself?” As she left prisoners said “aunty aap to humare ghar ke lawyer ho!”
Yesterday a lawyer asked me where in the world ever has a fascist government been removed from power through elections. Though I consider myself decently well read, I was stumped. Do educate me.
Jabeda Begum sold her land 2 pay her lawyer & submitted 14 docs 2 show she is Indian, including:
-voter ID Card
-parent’s NRC
-land revenue receipt
-village headman cert
-ration card
-PAN card
-bank passbook. She still failed 2 make it 2 NRC. On whose conscience will this be?
I want to write a book on the student life of our prime minister to inspire the youth. Any leads on classmates, teachers, canteen chacha who must have sold him samosas and chai, etc for the purpose of interviewing them and asking them to share their experience would be welcome!
Akhilesh has bagged 50 percent of the postal ballots which are in paper form and which are cast by armed forces, govt employees etc who are traditional BJP supporters. Hmmm.
All those young lawyers cribbing that law is not a rewarding profession-See how well this young advocate has done for himself. Make him your role model. ☺️
Nani Palkhivala who represented Indira Gandhi before the vacation bench of Krishna Iyer J in the Raj Narain Case withdrew from the brief when emergency was declared. Fali Nariman similarly resigned as ASG when Indira proclaimed Emergency! A generation of lawyers with spine!
Justice Arun Mishra’s parting order has been to direct 48000 jhuggi dwellers to be evicted along railway lines in three months during a time the pandemic peaks in the country! It takes an “Iron Judge” to do that!
My daughter had a rare father-daughter talk today and she confessed that she was exploring ‘spirituality’ on u tube. If that was not shock enough, she said “Baba there is this bearded chap who also speaks nicely. His name is Sad-guru, have u heard of him?” 😖😬🤒😵💫😳🙈
Congratulations to the star son’s legal team!
However, Stan Swamy died fighting for a sipper. Sudha Bharadwaj & Co all are in jail for over two years. Umar & Co for months. They cannot afford Mukul Rohatgi and Raian Karanjawala as lawyers! The system must be lawyer neutral!
Have you noticed in India most chemist shops, when they sell sanitary napkins, they wrap it up in a newspaper ..that’s the function of our newspapers-hiding reality.
-Munawar Faruqui
Comedian, Prisoner
The Supreme Court gave Munawar his freedom back in one minute which the courts below denied him for over a month. I get the concept of hierarchy of courts but isn’t there something seriously wrong if there is such variance in judicial approaches?
While their Bihari and UP counterparts burnt buses and trains, the Mallu army aspirants protested Agneepath by doing push ups in front of the Raj Bhavan!
Kerala! Kerala! 😂😂😂😂☺️
This iconic conversation filled us with pride as a kid! Always wondered whether the exchange was scripted as India’s First Cosmonaut was so prompt with his witty and unforgettable answer 😜
This poor girl has ended up being the meme queen of 2024! She should sue that stupid Advertising Firm which obviously didn’t deserve the electoral bond money that they were paid for that promo 😂😂😂😂
Dear Law Student,
When you sit in your class today, look to your right and your left carefully. Who knows, maybe one day the three of you law school batchmates might be sitting on a Constitution Bench together!
CLC batchmates DYC CJI, Kaul & Bhat JJ
People were saying that an “intellectual” was caught out in a televised interview discussing a book. My search went down the wire and I finally found this.
Now I am being told it’s the wrong one. 🫣🤔😕😏😒
My domestic worker shows up finally after a month. I hand over her salary. She does her work & while leaving says “dada I can’t take whole amount. Please pay me 1/2. I hvnt worked, it’s not right!” As I pack her off w/a gali I wonder how grace has nothing to do with wealth!
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest