Neither roses nor thorns
- 30th
- Lucknow EBC Publishing Ltd. 2025
- x, 218 p.
Table Of Contents:
My Father 1 Grandmother 6 Days in the Profession 9 Glamour in Court - Some Unusual Clients 14 Notable Figures of Amritsar Bar 17 Some Prominent Muslims of Amritsar 20 Communal Riots of 1947 25 From Bar to Bench 32 Kalka Firing Enquiry 37 Dalmia Case 39 District and Sessions Judge, Delhi 43 Punjab High Court 46 Partap Singh Kairon 51 Orissa Enquiry 55 Chief Justice of High Court 60 Supreme Court 62 Visit to Australia 66 Mrs. Gandhi's Election Appeal 71 Attempt to Reconsider Kesavananda Bharati's case 73 Minority Rights 76 Habeas Corpus Case 79 Resignation from the Court 83 March 1977 90 Chairmanship of Law Commission 97 Visit to Europe 106 Centre-State Relations 116 UGC Membership 122 A Meeting to Remember 124 Minister for Three Days 127 Sanjay Gandhi 133 Candidate in Presidential - Election 137 Looking Back at Three Score and Ten 143 1984 - Postscript 150
RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS
Mahja and His Son 163 Bhagat Ji 165 Bharpur Singh 167 Vidya Ram 169 A Minister Falters 171 A Date with the Tiger 173 A Trip to Kalpa Valley 176 Leading a Dancing Troupe 178 Trespassers Will be Eaten 180 Co existence in Kaziranga 183 The Capital of Nagaland 185 A Pleasant Encounter 187 Made for Each Other 189 Execution of Bhutto 192 Tragedy of Assam 194 C.K. Dapthary 196 Israel Investigating Commission 198 Salute to Yasuo Kato 199
When Justice Khanna delivered his dissenting judgement in the famous Habeas Corpus case, the New York Times in an editorial wrote about him : "If India ever finds its way back to freedom and democracy that proud hallmark of its first 18 years, someone will surely erect a monument to justice H.R. Khanna of the Supreme Court."
In this forthright autobiography of his life, Justice Khanna lays bare the influences that shaped his life and made him the great man that he is. An outstanding judge and jurist, an undaunted man of conviction and independent views, Justice Khanna's life is one for every Indian to emulate today, and his autobiography for every Indian to read.