Random Reflections by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer | 2024

Random Reflections by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer | 2024

Random Reflections by Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer is a collection of essays and thought-pieces by the eminent Indian jurist, social reformer, and activist judge, offering his reflections on a wide range of legal, social, constitutional and cultural issues. It isn’t a single-theme book like a novel or standard textbook, but rather a compendium of observations and critiques on matters of public interest and jurisprudence from his vast experience.

Random Reflections includes essays and notes on topics such as:

• Criminal justice and prison reform — including parole jurisprudence and humane approaches to incarceration.
• Social justice issues — inhumanity towards tribal communities and their rehabilitation strategies, and other societal inequities.
• Constitutional law and governance — reflections on the Constitution of India, its safety valves, and constitutional amendments.
• Contemporary social and political concerns — essays on police reform, campus politics, labour strikes, secularism, and national crises like the Marad massacre.
• Cultural and philosophical musings — thoughts on India’s cultural heritage, visionary personalities like Rabindranath Tagore, and broader ideas of humanitarian law and global democratic order.
• Judicial reforms — calls for a National Judicial Commission and discussions of parliamentary privileges and people’s freedoms.

Table of Contents of Random Reflections by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer

•    A Special Note on Parole Jurisprudence and Narcotic Convicts
•    Inhumanity on Adivasi and their Rehabilitative Strategy - A Kerala Fiasco
•    Christian Personal Laws in Chaos
•    College Campus Politics - Nocent or Innocent?
•    Constitution of India - The Nation's Safety Valve
•    Constitutional Amendments in India
•    Indian Casualties as Substitutes for American Cadavers in Occupied Iraq? No
•    Indian Policing - Some Social Dimensions
•    Information Explosion - A Vision Statement
•    Marad Massacre - A National Alarum
•    Transnational Corporations and Piracy of Ayurvedic Heritage
•    People's Commission on Perversion of our Patent Laws
•    Some New Light on Constitutional Law - A Review
•    The Marad Impasse - Omnious Portent
•    Blanket Ban on Strikes by Labour - A Judicial Excess?
•    Gujarat and Marad - Is Indian Secularism A Charade or A Soul under Siege
•    Mata Amritanandamayi - A Votarist Salutation
•    Two Constrasting Visionaries
•    Random Reflections on our Ancient Cultural Treasury
•    A Democratic Defeat without Personal Disappointment
•    A National Judicial Commission - A Command for Reforms
•    A Vibrant Vision and Militant Mission
•    Numerological Nostrum for Pathological Procrastination of the Judicature
•    Parliamentary Privileges, People's Freedoms and Judicial Invigilation
•    The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Camaraderie among the Great Institutions
•    A Case for National Prison Policy
•    Animal Citizen
•    Humanitarian Law- A Halting History of Global Evolution
•    Humanitarian Jurisprudence within the Parameters of a Global Democratic Order
•    Wounded Nature Vs. Human Future
•    Plachimada Patriotism - Toxicola Terrorism
•    Rabindranatha Tagore - The Assessment of a Visionary

About The Author:

Vaidyanathapuram Rama Iyer Krishna Iyer was a Supreme Court Justice renowned for his role in judicial activism, public interest litigation (PIL), and advocacy for human rights and social justice. He authored numerous books — Random Reflections being one of them, published originally in 2004.

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