Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Law and Life
Chapter 2. Are Judges A Rare Class Above Public Servants?
Chapter 3. People's Access to Judicial Process for Redress of Public Grievances through
Pro Bono PIL Proceedings: A Functional Dimension of Social Justice
Chapter 4. The Indian Constitution - Some Creative Mutations Mooted
Chapter 5. The Indian Judiciary its Fiduciary Functionalism - A Creative Critique
Chapter 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
Chapter 7. The Indian Judicial Odyssey - A Sixty-year Saga of Justice,
Justices and Justicing
Chapter 8. Law and Justice at the Subordinate Court Level
Chapter 9. Indian Judicial Independence Accountability
Chapter 10. Indian Justice System: Some Inconvenient Truth
Chapter 11. A Division Bench Allergy to Judicial Activism and Jejune Departure from
PIL Jurisprudence
Chapter 12. Is Contempt Power an Arbitrary Judicial Terror or People's Justice Guarantor?
Chapter 13. Himalayan Arrears of Court Cases, Ganga Flow of Perennial Forensic
Process, Lucratively Long Lawyerly Submissions and Judgments Jejune,
Delayed or Undelivered
Chapter 14. The Dynamics and Dialectics of Access to Forensic Justice
Chapter 15. Capital Punishment: A Penological Barbarity why Death Sentence on
Death Sentence
Chapter 16. Tribal Uplift and the Rule of Law
Chapter 17. Odyssey of Indian Independence, Vintage 1947 - Quo Vadis Swaraj?
Chapter 18. Jammu & Kashmir - Is there no Feasible Solution?
Chapter 19. Nehru and India - A Critique
Chapter 20. The Police Personnel and Their Public Duties - My Perspective as a
Former Home Minister of Kerala
Chapter 21. Decadence of Democracy - An Inconvenient Indian Truth
Chapter 22. An Indian Caveat: Communalist Politics and Pluralist Theologies will
Break-up our Republic
Chapter 23. Swaraj - Unto the Last
Chapter 24. Democracy, Development and Distributive Strategy to Salvage have-not Humanity
Chapter 25. Is Socialism A Non-viable Casualty and Capitalism an only Alternative
Chapter 26. Democracy and the Pathological Poll Process
Chapter 27. The Indian System of Elections - Some Reflections
Chapter 28. Presidential Election - By the Parties, for the Parties and of the Parties
Chapter 29. Why the Presidential Election is Important?
Chapter 30. Never the Rose but has a Thorn: the Little Man's Ballot is Burked if
Election Law not Reformed
Chapter 31. Critique of Foreign Contribution Regulation Bill
Chapter 32. Disasters of Distorted Urban Development a La Cochin Garbage
Calamity and Rugged Road Casualty
Chapter 33. We Need a New World Order
Chapter 34. Who Owns Your Life - The Right to Die and Die with Dignity
Chapter 35. Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal - A Grave Debate
Chapter 36. U.S. Uranium Import Deal for Energy Security: A Scapegoat,
Scapegrace and Seppuku?
Chapter 37. Nuclear Reactor: A Developmental Disaster
Chapter 38. Why Allergy for Vast Native Alternative Energy Resources and
Hunger for U.S. Uranium Deal
Chapter 39. Treaty Making Power of the Indian Executive: Is Ratification by
Parliament a Sine Qua Non?
Chapter 40. Indian Cricket - A Great Game - Do Redeem its Glory from Greed
Chapter 41. Cricketers Auctioned: A Great Game Disgraced by Greedy Gamble
Chapter 42. A Poignant Autobiographical Page
Chapter 43. Justice Khanna - A Heretic-humanist on a Mystic Bench
Chapter 44. Dr. Sheshagiri Prabhu
Chapter 45. A Postmortem Tribute to Maharshi Mahesh Yogi
Chapter 46. Maharshi Mahesh Yogi and TM as a Tool of Correcional Therapy
Chapter 47. Maharshi Mahesh Yogi, Mentmore Palace and TM
Chapter 48. Important Rare Letters
Subject Index.