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CONTENTS: *BEFORE THE EMERGENCY AND AFTER, *JUSTICES AND JUSTICING, *INDIAN JUDICATURE - MILLENNIAL TRANSFORMATION, *THE NOBLE PREAMBLE: WE HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP, *JUDICIAL POWER-A MANAGEMENT MESS?, *JUDICIAL MODERATION AND MAJESTY OF JUSTICE, *WHY STULTIFY JUDGES' STATUS?, *VENAL-VENIAL JOURNALISM AND VULNERABLE JUDICIALISM, *RAREST OF THE RARE, *MOTILAL SETALVAD - A MELLOW MAGNIFICENT SELF-PORTRAIT, *QUO VADIS INDIA?, *MC CHAGLA-THE CENTENARY OF A JUDICIAL STATESMAN, *GATT, TRIPS, PATENT LAW, *HUMAN HEALTH AND PATENT LAW TO BE OR NOT TO BE, *THE JURISTIC MANIFESTO OF THE HUMAN PERSON-INDIAN PERSPECTIVE, *ENVIRONMENTAL TRIBUNAL, *ARE NOT WOMEN HUMAN EVEN WHEN IN CUSTODY?, *THE INDIAN SCENARIO OF HUMAN RIGHTS-VINTAGE 1999, *INDIA, THAT IS BHARAT : CHAOS IN THE COSMOS, *HUMAN RIGHTS PRAXIS : HOPE OR DESPAIR?, *THE POLICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND POLICING THE POLICE, *CRIME AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN, *HUMAN RIGHTS NOW AND THE OMINOUS MILLENNIUM AHEAD, *HARA-KIRI OF DEMOCRACY OR POWER GRAB ADVENTURISM, *GLOBALISATION - VANISHING NATIONAL ECONOMICS AND DIMINISHING LABOUR SURVIVAL, *ENVIRONMENTAL MALADIES AND JUDICIAL REMEDIES, *CONTEMPT POWER - CIPHERISE ITS USER, *AN ANGUISHED AFTERWORD, *BHARAT! A TRYST BETRAYED AND A TRAGEDY ENGINEERED, *EQUAL JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, *DALITS, WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS-CRISIS ESCALATION AND RESOLUTION, *KERALA ON THE MARCH (DECENTRALIZED DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENTAL ADVANCE), *BHAGAVAN SATYA SAI BABA : A HUMAN INCARNATION WITH MISSION OF COMPASSION AND LIBERATION, *THE CONSTITUTION REVISITED, *PRIME MINISTER VAJPAYEE A PLAINTIVE PLEA FOR BHARAT, *CONSTITUTIONAL CONUNDRUM OF A CARETAKER GOVERNMENT, *SCIENCE, RELIGION AND THE DHARMA OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, *PRO TEM CARETAKER AND PARAMETERS OF POWER *SOCIETY, LAW AND SCIENCE, *THE REGIONAL MEDIA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, *VEERAPPACRACY AND AN ORAL OBITER, *CABINET SANS CONFIDENCE OF HOUSE - A CABAL IN POWER OR PRO TEM CARETAKER BY COURTESY - SOME CONSTITUTIONAL PERCEPTIONS, *THE GERONTIC AGE AND SUNSET STAGE OF INDIAN LIFE, *FUTURE SHOCK OR BETTER TOMORROW, *GLORY OF GOD-MYTH OR TRUTH OR BOTH, *INDIAN SAGA UNDER BRITISH RAJ IN THE THIRTIES- A REPORT BY A BRITISH DELEGATION, *BIHAR IN FLAMES, *WTO HO!, *DON'T BE TRAPPED BY TRIPS, *QUO VADIS PARLIAMENTARY PANDEMONIC PROCESS?, *BHAGAWADGITA-SOME REFLECTIONS, *CONTEMPT POWER-A CASE OF SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH!, *A CRIME, A CRIME BY A CRUDE KHAKI CROWD , *AN EPILOGUE TO THE OLIO, *STATESMAN PAR EXCELLENCE