Growing Flexibility in Gender Roles of Men and Women Transition in social milieu has always been a universal factor which reverberates in the vicissitudes of the society. Changes in a particular field have an impact on other realms of society too. A brilliant example of such change is that of the growing flexibility in gender roles of men and women. Early society had rigid roles for men and women. Characteristics and...

Politics and Religion If politics is ‘the last refuge of scoundrels’, and religion the opium of the masses’, any nexus between the two is bound to spell doom. However, if we consider politics as involving the recognition and reconciliation of opposing interests within a given unit of rule, and religion as the root of most of the profound and permanent values of life we cannot quite dismiss the idea of the...

The Politics of Communalism India is a nation in the making with a society in transition which has various strands of social groups either in conflict, or in temporary alliance with each other. The conflict has sometimes been summarized as ‘Bharat’ versus ‘India’, where ‘Bharat’ represents the vast disadvantaged sections left behind bearing the brunt of social exploitation, and ‘India’ symbolizes the people who are on the path of progress, having...

Judicial Activism Essay No. 01 Judicial activism’ is the current term in use. In a way, it is an absurd term—if we have a judiciary, it is to be hoped that its members will be active; but the term ‘activism’, of course, implies Intervention’. Judicial activism involves innovative interpretations of the nuances of law. According to Justice J.S. Verma of the Supreme Court, “The role of judiciary in interpreting existing laws...

Politicians above the Law Every now and then, we hear someone declare proudly. if a bit self-righteously, that India is the biggest democracy. We love to point out that the framers of our Constitution look the best ideas and principles from constitutions of different countries so that our own document could be one of the best. Practically, all kinds of likely dangers to the nascent democratic republic were taken into account...

Law as an Instrument of Social Change Eighteenth century India and today’s India: What a contrast! On the one hand, we have a stagnating traditional culture and society, in fact, we are in a state of decadence not witnessed before—a decadence condemned by most modern Indians from Ram mohan Roy onwards. On the other hand, vie have a still traditional society in the throes of a creative excitement, of modernizing itself,...

The World of Twenty-first Century Mankind has completed more than 2,000 years of its existence since the birth of Lord Jesus Christ. Man came to this earth -through the process of natural evolution—nearly one million years ago. Today, he is the undisputed master of this part of the universe. He has come a long way and has many more miles to go. Let us see what the future holds for him...