Mohan V Katarki

Justice Chandrachud is credited with progressive judgments during his long tenure in the high courts and the Supreme Court, but his disclosure of prayer to God has left some disquieting and some even repulsed, writes Mohan Katarki.

India achieved independence mainly through a process of long peaceful and non-violent constitutional means founded on Gandhism, writes Mohan V. Katarki.

How do linguistic structures impact legal clarity and precision? And what are the main challenges to transitioning our courts from English to indigenous languages?

If the life of law is not logic but experience as Holmes said, the legal fraternity must go around the globe to learn more about cross-border cultural life and natural history, writes Mohan Katarki.

If a government’s decisions are informed by anything other than scientific thought and reason, it becomes a theocratic government

Editor’s note: On April 23, 2025, India suspended the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, one day after a brutal massacre in the Baisaran valley in Pahalgam claimed the lives of twenty six tourists. We revisit this timely piece, originally published on March 16, 2019

Governments around the world are obligated to eradicate hunger, an inextricable facet of global impoverishment and inequality. Ten years ago, the UN General Assembly resolved to achieve ‘Zero Hunger’ by 2030. Long before that, India enacted the National Food Security Act. Yet over 700 million people worldwide go hungry every day, and famines have ravaged India even in the 21st century. A timely, collective reflection could save us.

The authority of the Indian Constitution was not divinely ordained or violently seized, but legally transferred and morally grounded in the will of the people.

In his foreword to The Leaflet’s Republic Day Special Issue 2026, Senior Advocate Mohan Katarki situates constitutional discourse around 75 years of the Constitution in an era of ideological contestation.

After three decades, the bipartisan demand for one-third women’s reservation in Parliament is on the verge of realisation. But its linking to delimitation has raised serious concerns on how seats will be allocated in the legislature.