The final time an Indian chief held a lot energy — within the Seventies, when the nation slid into outright dictatorship below Indira Gandhi — it was the courts that proved the ultimate pace bump, issuing choices that aimed to claw again some basic constitutional rights.
Now, as the present prime minister, Narendra Modi, tightens his grip on India’s democratic pillars with elections approaching early subsequent 12 months, he faces little pushback from the nation’s judiciary. As an alternative, analysts,…