Interesting that you bring it up. The Indian Supreme court has always been very active and seems to provide a sense of "balance" to the political chaos that is

Interesting that you bring it up. The Indian Supreme court has always been very active and seems to provide a sense of "balance" to the political chaos that is persistent. There was a very good (albeit very west-centric) article in NYT about this - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/world/asia/india-supreme-court-modi.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/world/asia/india-supreme-... I remember, back in 1995, reading a big banner hung up on a very prominent intersection in the downtown Mumbai area, that celebrated a supreme court decision on a controversial political corruption case by declaring "Thanks to the supreme court, India survives despite it's politicians. That, at that time, summed up the feelings of many urban middle class residents.