Mr. Gopal Subramanium is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. After completing a degree in law from the University of Delhi, he began his career in 1980 at the Chambers of Mr. Soli Sorabjee. In the early years of his career, he acted as Standing Counsel for the Union of India before the Supreme Court and was also retained by M/S Amarchand Mangaldas & Hira Lal Shroff & Co. In 1993, he was designated Senior Advocate suo motu by the Supreme Court, one of the youngest

Colourism in India and Across the World Of all the inherent cultural and social contradictions that exist in India, the one that really stands out is our obsession with being ‘fair and lovely’. A country majorly comprising of dark skinned people deifying the white skin is our last remnants of the Raj, and unsurprisingly, it is to be seen in other such previously colonised countries such as Nigeria. This is also commonly referred to as the ‘Snow White Syndrome’. It is unfortun

ವಿಮೋಚನೆ or Vimōcane (Kannada). విముక్తి or Vimukti (Telugu). വിമോചനം or vimēācanaṁ (Malyalam). স্বাধীনতা  or Sbādhīnatā  (Bengali). मुक्ति or Mukti (Hindi). Liberation (English). Each of these languages capture a different nuance of the word ‘liberation’. And in the linguistic womb of most, there are two simultaneous movements involved in this word: a setting free. a deliverance. One is not only released from one state. But is also delivered to another (higher) state. While K