There’s a chilling similarity The tone of this government’s argument for the National Judicial Appointments Commission recalls how a former regime browbeat the judiciary in the run-up to the Emergency.

A must read note of warning by Teesta Setalvad on what's going on in the Judiciary and how the government of the day is hell bent on curtailing the judicial freedom in the name of judicial accountability. It is time we understand the seriousness of the issue. The threat to our democracy was never as much as it stand today.