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Description
This biography ventures to project the life and personality of a unique human being fighting, never retreating, nor relenting for the people whose rights are clear to him because of a spritual commitment which energises his activities regardless of his age — Justice V.R. Krishna lyer.
Justice Krishna lyer is a multi-faceted personality with varied commitments to the cause of human rights, an ardent and active advocate of, in others view, lost causes needs the services of a modern day. Boswell or the pen of a Plutarch, a Veda Vyasa or a Valmiki. It is a simple tribute to this great soul, the Greatest Humanist of this century.
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Contents
1. The biography begins
2. Parents, brothers and sisters
3. Krishna lyer weds Sarada
4. In preventive detention
5. Member of the Madras Presidencey Sate Assembly
6. As Minister in the Kerala State ome Law Irrigation and power
7. Prison Reforms
8. Crypto Communist and The War against Communism
9. Outrage of the Constitution
10. Victory and defeat
11. Judge of the Kerala High Court
12. A Tale of two mansions
13. Member of the Law Commission
14. Days on Supreme Court Bench
15. The Fateful August 12
16. The tense story of a Stay Order
17. Contribution to the Legal Aid Movement
18. Death Penalty
19. Krishna lyer and Human Rights
20. The Position of the President and the Governor
21. Individual freedom
22. Bail and the poor
23. Progressive Industrial jurisprudence
24. Gender justice
25. Saint of Secularism—Uniform Civil Code
26. In this land of Daridranarayanans
27. Presidential candidate
28. Humanitarian Characteristics
29. Friend of Dalits
30. Plea to appoint SC/ST persons as judges of the High Courts
31. The Problem of Eelam Tamils
32. Life after death
33. Transcendental Meditation
34. Demolition of Babri Masjid
35. Music maestro
36. Dictiona lyer
37. Colonial Pocks—A Bizarre Episode
38. Contempt of Court Thirty-nine Contempt of Court again
40. A National Honour : Belated
41. Doctorate of Laws
42. Judging a Judge
43. Close Friends of Krishna lyer
44. Denouement
Index
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Author Details
Ponniah Krishnaswamy was born in the year 1932 the son of indentured tea plantation worker (an euphemism for bonded labourers) in Sri Lanka, his parents having migrated to the island in the late 1800s from Nalukkottai village in the then sprawling district of Ramanathapuram. Having learnt his three 'r's initially at the estate school, he later joined the Methodist Mission School in Hatton in the heart of the Kandyan hills. Passing his Senior School Certificate examination he worked briefly as a clerk in tea exporting firm in Colombo and then did a stint as a teacher in the Mission School, where he studied.
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