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I was the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 2004-2005. Nisha Banu was then a lawyer practising in the Madurai Bench of the High Court. She would often appear before me, and I found her to be a very competent lawyer, with good knowledge of the law, and had a good reputation.

Of late, two topics have been prominent in the Indian media, and are being widely discussed–the Bihar elections, and the…

A judgment of a single judge of the Madras High Court, Justice N.Senthil Kumar, passed on 3.10.2025 in Writ Petition…

By Justice Markandey Katju, Judge, Supreme Court of India   In ancient India not only was there tremendous development of mathematics,…

Many people know of Portia’s famous speech in Shakespeare’s play ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in which she pleaded that justice…

यह लेख राजस्थान लोक सेवा आयोग (RPSC) की 2023 सहायक आचार्य भर्ती प्रक्रिया का आलोचनात्मक विश्लेषण करता है, जिसमें गंभीर प्रणालीगत खामियों को उजागर किया गया है. यह साक्षात्कार हेतु बुलाए गए उम्मीदवारों के मनमाने अनुपात और अवास्तविक कट-ऑफ मार्जिन जैसी अनियमितताओं पर प्रकाश डालता है, जिसके कारण कई उम्मीदवारों के चयन की कोई गणितीय संभावना नहीं थी.

This article critically examines the Rajasthan Public Service Commission’s (RPSC) 2023 Assistant Professor recruitment, exposing significant systemic flaws. It highlights glaring irregularities, including arbitrary and inconsistent ratios of candidates called for interviews, which ranged from over 12 per seat in Mathematics to as low as 2 in other subjects. The analysis further reveals the practice of calling numerous candidates with no mathematical chance of final selection due to the massive gaps between interview and final cut-off scores.

Goswamy Tulsidas wrote in Ramcharitamanas :“परहित सरिस धरम नहि भाई।परपीड़ा सम नहि अधमाई।।”i.e.There is no dharma equal to service of…

Author – Varun Kumar Co-Author – Nikita Sharma Police interrogations can be intimidating, regardless of whether one is approached as…