Author: Dr Navin C Naidu

Justice, or just us

Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities. – Voltaire, French philosopher, writer and historian There is an incubus living in our midst that voraciously forages on judicial misadventure, juridical misconduct, questionable legislation, corruption at all levels of the civil service, and moral turpitude. This blood-thirsty

Common sense, common law and cow manure

Law reform is too serious a matter to be left to the legal profession. – Leslie G Scarman, Law Lord, UK It is onerous a task these days to decipher the arduous mental effort expended by those who labour on accepting the fact that the law is a living growth,

Elections during an emergency

A hot button issue has cropped up concerning the holding of elections, if indeed one is constitutionally mandated, when a proclamation of emergency is in effect. There are various ways of looking at this issue for finding workable solutions. Article 150(2B) of the Federal Constitution (FC) offers some answers which

The Bohica Syndrome

Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression. – James Madison, 4th US President “Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing

Perceptions, Receptions and Deceptions

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perceptions. – Aldous Huxley, English writer, philosopher Our stinking thinking is specially engineered to naively accept everything as the norm, the gospel truth, or the raison d’etre if it appears and sounds right. This

Making Malaysia grate again?

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. — Malvolio in Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare The shredding of our values goes unabated due to nihilistic policies as if we were once a great nation that fell by the wayside. We are victims of