Synopsis: The enormous power of judicial review given to judges is not due to their personal brilliance; it is a responsibility entrusted by the Constitution. But the question today is whether they are using that power democratically. Judges like Justice Swaminathan are converting the judiciary into an instrument for implementing a Manu-ist agenda. This is nothing but an attack on the Constitution.

A few divisive forces are stirring up a controversy over the lighting of the Karthigai Deepam in Tirupparankundram in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai district.

For more than a hundred years, the lamp has been lit near the Uchchipillaiyar Temple in Tirupparankundram. There is even an old inscriptional record supporting this traditional location.

Ignoring this, certain religious fundamentalists and div

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