As part of the assessments, 20,000 RTI applications filed to different public authorities in the country were collected, of which detailed analysis of a randomly selected sample of 5000 applications was undertaken.

BY SHAILESH GANDHI ON 07/10/2015 The RTI law is being amended by the court without any reasoning and unless this is reversed, the Right to Information could slowly be emasculated

Rule of law has meant different things to different people at different times. This prompted constitutional historian Ivor Jennings to characterise it as “an unruly horse”.

Your book “Informal Constitution” is timely. Did you anticipate that the non-appointment of a nominee of the collegium to the judgeship of the Supreme Court would become controversial?

Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer (1914-2014) had a unique judicial philosophy, a quality that stemmed from his belief that law evolved through diverse views and that flashes of collision brought out the truth and justice. By V. VENKATESAN