BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Incomplete Justice? The Supreme Court at 75

by S. Muralidhar

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India’s top legal minds on the issues that define justice In its seventy-fifth year, how should one view the Supreme Court of India – an institution that has not only transformed in its composition

and functioning but has also been a catalyst for change in other branches of the State? How has it fared in terms of accountability, transparency and its responsibility to both the law and the people? Has it consistently managed to strike the delicate balance between judicial activism and the imperative of accountability in the exercise of judicial power?
To what extent has the Court fulfilled its role as a counter-majoritarian body capable of checking majoritarian impulses and the excesses of State power? Has it remained true to its constitutional mandate, interpreting the Constitution in the spirit of its foundational values – liberty, equality, fraternity and dignity? And how consistent has its jurisprudence been in defending these ideals?
This book brings together a range of voices – former judges, practicing lawyers, legal scholars, researchers and a journalist – to engage with these questions through a series of essays and interviews. Their reflections offer a critical exploration of the Supreme Court’s evolving role and functioning. This volume aims to foster meaningful dialogue and deepen public understanding of the Court’s challenges in retaining its legitimacy while striving to fulfill the constitutional promise of equal and fair justice.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

S. Muralidhar is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court. He has previously served as the Chief Justice of the Odisha High Court and as the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and he has also served as a Justice of the Delhi High Court.

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Sama, Dama, Danda, Bheda: Ancient Indian Wisdom for Strategy, Leadership, Power and Statecraft from Chanakya’s Arthashastra | Negotiation, Influence and Decision-Making by Ami Ganatra

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Ancient wisdom. Modern strategy. A powerful playbook for
navigating power―and using it responsibly.

Sama, Dama, Danda, Bheda brings Chanakya’s timeless wisdom to modern readers, offering insights for engaging with people, institutions, competition and complex situations in an ever-changing world.

Drawing on the Arthashastra, this accessible and practical guide reveals how these ancient strategies can sharpen decision-making across leadership, business, governance and geopolitics. At its heart is a compelling question: how can power be exercised effectively while remaining aligned with Dharma? Part cultural classic, part strategist’s handbook, the book transforms Chanakya’s ideas into tools for understanding influence, negotiation, authority and human behaviour.

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Ami Ganatra is an alumna of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), a management professional, certified yoga instructor, and a student of Sanskrit and Indian knowledge systems. Through her work, Ami combines rigorous engagement with India's classical traditions with an accessible contemporary voice, bringing the wisdom and complexity of the epics to a new generation of readers.

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The Land of Monsoons and Martyrs: A New History Of Bangladesh by Salil Tripathi

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Between March and December 1971, the Pakistani army committed atrocities on an unprecedented scale in the country’s eastern wing. Pakistani troops and their collaborators were responsible for countless deaths and cases of rape. Clearly, religion alone wasn’t enough to keep Pakistan’s two halves united.

From that brutal violence, Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation, but the wounds have continued to fester. The gruesome assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman—the country’s charismatic first prime minister—and most of his family, the coups and counter-coups which followed, accompanied by long years of military rule were individually and collectively responsible for the country’s inability to come to grips with the legacy of the liberation war.

Around five decades later came the catastrophic fall of Mujib’s daughter, Hasina Wajed, who ruled the country for twenty years. Bloody protests erupted across Bangladesh in 2024, when Hasina reinstated quotas for government jobs, the majority of which benefited the progeny of freedom fighters. Over a thousand dissenting civilians were killed when she unleashed the security forces on them. Within a month, she was forced to flee to India in a helicopter, marking an ignominious end to her career.

In this revised and updated edition, Salil Tripathi travels the length and breadth of the country, probing its trauma through interviews with hundreds of Bangladeshis. The Land of Monsoons & Martyrs, which was originally published as The Colonel Who Would Not Repent, offers the reader an unforgettable portrait of a nation whose political history since Independence has been marked more by tragedy than triumph.

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Salil Tripathi was born in the city once known as Bombay and studied at New Era School and Sydenham College, and later at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in the United States. An award-winning journalist, his books include Offence: The Hindu Case, Detours: Songs of the Open Road, and The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community, which was long-listed for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize and received an honourable mention at the History Literature Festival in 2026. The Colonel Who Would Not Repent, the earlier edition of this book, was long-listed for the non-fiction prize at the Tata Literature Live festival in Mumbai in 2015. With the artist Shilpa Gupta, he has co-edited For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, a collection of writings about prison. As a foreign correspondent and human rights researcher, he has reported out of Southeast Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. He has chaired PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and is a member of its board. He has also chaired juries for writing about human rights, including the Disturbing the Peace Prize at the Vaclav Havel Center. He lives in New York.

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