India, Aug. 16 -- From the Ramaswami case to press restrictions, India's institutional history raises uncomfortable questions.

Senior advocate and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal recently raised several serious questions at the Prem Bhatia Memorial Lecture on the subject, 'Why have the two strongest pillars of democracy-the press and the judiciary-both disappointed us?' Sibal has been a Member of Parliament and a Union Minister handling important portfolios, including Law, Human Resource Development (Education), Communications, IT and Earth Sciences, with the support of the Congress party. After losing elections in Delhi first to Sushma Swaraj and later to Dr Harsh Vardhan, he continued his political journey through legal and political manoeu...