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https://www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews/elegy-gandhis-un-gandhian-india

Harmony Siganporia, Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas. Oxford University Press. 2022

'Vikas' and an Uneasy Peace: Retracing the Dandi Path That Gandhi Once Walked
An excerpt from 'Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas'.

There is a difference between legal reporting and political reporting.  Which one should legal correspondents adopt?

A classic example is this

Supreme Court refuses to stay EC's Sena order; issues notice on team Thackeray plea https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/supreme-court-refuses-to-stay-ecs-sena-order-issues-notice-on-team-thackeray-plea/articleshow/98161554.cms

Do you report that the SC refuses to stay ECs Sena order?on the ground that they cannot pass an order which has the effect of staying the EC order without hearing the other party..

Or do you report that the SC issued notice on a plea filed by the Uddhav Thackeray faction challenging the EC order and ordered listing of the case after two weeks.

Or that The Shinde faction gave a verbal undertaking that it would not take precipitative action against the Thackeray faction by issuing disqualification proceedings.

Or that the bench refused to pass directions on a plea about the offices and bank accounts of the party being taken over by the Shinde group. on the ground that the EC order is confined to the allotment of the symbol.

Uddhav Thackeray vs Eknath Shinde | Supreme Court refuses to stay EC order on Shiv Sena https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uddhav-thackeray-vs-eknath-shinde-supreme-court-refuses-to-stay-ec-order-on-shiv-sena/article66540090.ece
The Supreme Court however has allowed a prayer by the Thackeray faction to allow an Election Commission interim order February 22, 2023 04:24 pm |

Supreme Court refuses to stay EC order to recognise Eknath Shinde faction as real Shiv Sena https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/supreme-court-refuses-to-stay-ec-order-to-recognise-eknath-shinde-faction-as-real-shiv-sena-482166
‘We cannot pass an order to stay the election commission order. We are entertaining the SLP’, the SC Bench said

What took Muslim leaders 75 yrs to let women into mosques?  Feroze Methiborwala   Feb 23, 2023https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/what-took-this-muslim-body-75-years-to-allow-women-into-mosques/articleshow/98170533.cms  Muslim women’s entry into mosques is a moral victory, but why did it take AIMPLB 75 years to state the obvious?