Hyderabad, April 9 -- I remember a movie in which the commissioner of police tells his subordinate to bash up a detainee to get him to confess. The indignant detainee, with full awareness of what the law says, asserts, "You cannot do this to me! It is against the law!" The amused official looks him up and down and almost gently asks him, "Tere ko kaun bola re, Police waale kanoon ku follow karthe?" Sometimes movies turn out to be predictors of what the future holds.

P Chidambaram (Apr 6, 2025) referring to Art 26 of the Constitution, wrote ".in a multi-religious democratic country .all religions are equal. The administration of religious institutions must be in the hands of persons belonging to the religious denomination." Who told him t...