Where consensus gets challenged. Opinion pieces by our writers and the great judicial dissents of the Supreme Court — read in full, with context for why they mattered then and now.
Half a century after ADM Jabalpur, Justice H.R. Khanna's solitary dissent reads less like a counterargument and more like the only judgment that survived. A reconstruction of what he refused to concede, and why his colleagues refused with him.
In 1965, four judges of the Supreme Court held that Parliament's amending power was unlimited. The fifth, Justice K. Subba Rao, said the question was open. Eight years later, Kesavananda agreed. A reconstruction of the dissent that the Court had refused to ent
On 1 August 2024 a seven-judge bench overruled <em>E.V. Chinnaiah</em> by 6:1 and permitted States to sub-classify within Scheduled Castes. The lone dissenter, Bela M. Trivedi, devoted the first quarter of her opinion not to Article 341 but to whether the refe
Where consensus gets challenged. Opinion pieces by our writers and the great judicial dissents of the Supreme Court — read in full, with context for why they mattered then and now.
