Justice at heart : life journey of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer / Salman Khurshid, Dr Lokendra Malik ; with a foreword by P.P. Rao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khurshid, Salman, author.

Malik, Lokendra, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten International Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judges--India--Biography.

Judges.

India.

Krishna Iyer, V. R., 1915-2014.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 486 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lucknow : Eastern Book Company, 2016.

Summary:

"[This book] is the story of a crusader against injustice, a legendary judge who lived and worked for social justice for the people of India. Justice Krishna Iyer was a towering and a multifaceted personality having a varied experience of life. He has inspired many persons by his philosophy of life, and his insatiable hunger for socio-economic justice. An ardent advocate of change for better, a person with simple habits, he was a friend of all. If one has to sum up in one sentence this incredible personality one would simply say that he too wrote the constitution through his judicial pronouncements enriching it immensely and indeed explicating the intent and aspiration of the noble framers, making it truly a living document of our nationhood."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Early life

Life as a lawyer

Krishna Iyer and Sarada : a great matrimonial life

Political life

As judge of the High Court of Kerala

As member of the Law Commission of India

As judge of the Supreme Court of India

Selected judicial reflections

Post-retirement life

Selected extra-judicial reflections

Association with professional bodies, awards and publications

Concluding remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten International Fund.

ISBN:

9789351453932

9351453936

OCLC:

973232154