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Description
Justice lyer is one of the versatile authors who has written on each and every aspect of law and beyond, maintaining lucidity and depicting ocean deep knowledge of the subject.
His dynamic and enlightened idea on law and contemporary jurisprudence is a path-making source for the present and future judicial system. Out of multifarious activities of his life he always works out the time in writing for law and techno-socio matters, that becomes the flow of inspiration for the lawyers, judges and the common people, not only in our own land but also in other parts of the world.
This bouquet of articles was specially handpicked by the author himself to cater to different flavours of lawyers, laymen and judges in India and abroad.
This present collection contains articles on Judges, judicial System, Constitutional Law, Democracy, Arbitration, Jurisprudence, Indian and International Socio-Political topics and much more.
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Contents
1. Law and Life
2. Are Judges A Rare Class Above Public Servants?
3. People's Access to Judicial Process for Redress of Public Grievances through
Pro Bono PIL Proceedings: A Functional Dimension of Social Justice
4. The Indian Constitution - Some Creative Mutations Mooted
5. The Indian Judiciary its Fiduciary Functionalism - A Creative Critique
6. The Majesty of the Judiciary; its Paramountcy as High Instrumentality; its
Plenary Power to do Public Justice and its Democratic Accountability as
People's Fiduciary
7. The Indian Judicial Odyssey - A Sixty-year Saga of Justice,
Justices and Justicing
8. Law and Justice at the Subordinate Court Level
9. Indian Judicial Independence Accountability
10. Indian Justice System: Some Inconvenient Truth
11. A Division Bench Allergy to Judicial Activism and Jejune Departure from
PIL Jurisprudence
12. Is Contempt Power an Arbitrary Judicial Terror or People's Justice Guarantor?
13. Himalayan Arrears of Court Cases, Ganga Flow of Perennial Forensic
Process, Lucratively Long Lawyerly Submissions and Judgments Jejune,
Delayed or Undelivered
14. The Dynamics and Dialectics of Access to Forensic Justice
15. Capital Punishment: A Penological Barbarity why Death Sentence on
Death Sentence
16. Tribal Uplift and the Rule of Law
17. Odyssey of Indian Independence, Vintage 1947 - Quo Vadis Swaraj?
18. Jammu & Kashmir - Is there no Feasible Solution?
19. Nehru and India - A Critique
20. The Police Personnel and Their Public Duties - My Perspective as a
Former Home Minister of Kerala
21. Decadence of Democracy - An Inconvenient Indian Truth
22. An Indian Caveat: Communalist Politics and Pluralist Theologies will
Break-up our Republic
23. Swaraj - Unto the Last
24. Democracy, Development and Distributive Strategy to Salvage have-not Humanity
25. Is Socialism A Non-viable Casualty and Capitalism an only Alternative
26. Democracy and the Pathological Poll Process
27. The Indian System of Elections - Some Reflections
28. Presidential Election - By the Parties, for the Parties and of the Parties
29. Why the Presidential Election is Important?
30. Never the Rose but has a Thorn: the Little Man's Ballot is Burked if
Election Law not Reformed
31. Critique of Foreign Contribution Regulation Bill
32. Disasters of Distorted Urban Development a La Cochin Garbage
Calamity and Rugged Road Casualty
33. We Need a New World Order
34. Who Owns Your Life - The Right to Die and Die with Dignity
35. Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal - A Grave Debate
36. U.S. Uranium Import Deal for Energy Security: A Scapegoat,
Scapegrace and Seppuku?
37. Nuclear Reactor: A Developmental Disaster
38. Why Allergy for Vast Native Alternative Energy Resources and
Hunger for U.S. Uranium Deal
39. Treaty Making Power of the Indian Executive: Is Ratification by
Parliament a Sine Qua Non?
40. Indian Cricket - A Great Game - Do Redeem its Glory from Greed
41. Cricketers Auctioned: A Great Game Disgraced by Greedy Gamble
42. A Poignant Autobiographical Page
43. Justice Khanna - A Heretic-humanist on a Mystic Bench
44. Dr. Sheshagiri Prabhu
45. A Postmortem Tribute to Maharshi Mahesh Yogi
46. Maharshi Mahesh Yogi and TM as a Tool of Correcional Therapy
47. Maharshi Mahesh Yogi, Mentmore Palace and TM
48. Important Rare Letters
Subject Index.
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Author Details
Justice VR. Krishna Iyer born on 15th November, 1915, in northern Kerala and educated in Annamalai and Madras Universities, practiced law and defended peasants and workers against the exploitation of the feudal lords who had full support of the colonial regime.
In 1956 Mr. lyer was elected initially to Madras Legislative Assembly and later, after reorganization of States, to the Kerala Assembly, where he was chosen as Minister in charge of important portfolios like Home, Law, Social Welfare and Irrigation.
He was appointed judge of the Kerala High Court in July 1968 and became the Member of The Law Commission of India two years later.
In 1973, the Supreme Court of India beckoned him where he played an important role in an era of judicial activism, public interest litigation, affirmative action through courts and a wide ranging exercise of judicial review for which the Indian Judiciary is being hailed throughout the world today. Though his tenure in the Apex Court was relatively short, he managed to make a lasting impression on public mind.
He is the author of numerous books and has penned innumerable articles and is a leading member of several social organizations and professional bodies.
Mr. Justice lyer is an Honorary Visiting Professor of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and a promoter of its Community Law Reform Programme. He has been honoured with several coveted awards and distinctions from various organizations around the world.
He is the only Indian Judge on whom three doctoral thesis have been written by the scholars in three different Universities.
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