Justice Kapadia quoted Cardozo who said ‘Law must be stable yet it 11 cannot stand still!’ He underlined the importance of both the text and the underlying principles of the Indian Constitution in the process of judicial understanding and pronouncements, emphasising that the objectivity and certainty enshrined in the words and principles of the Constitution are vital to decision-making by the judi. [...] The IIC has been the trustee of the Himalayan Club Collection for many years, and the intention of the programme ‘Ladakh Revealed’ was to showcase the valuable collection, with the spotlight on Ladakh. [...] Jawhar Sircar’s talk on ‘The Construction of the Hindu Identity in Medieval Western Bengal: The Role of Popular Cults’ was based on a study of the Dharma cult, one of the major schools of the genre of Mangal Kavyas, and its absorption in the ‘greater tradition’ of Hinduism in medieval western Bengal. [...] Dakhani came into existence through an interaction between Hindu and Islamic faiths and between Urdu and the languages of the south, as the result of the migration of Sufis, merchants and common people to the Deccan from the 13th century onwards. [...] The Tagore mansion of Jorasanko was at the hub of the Bengal Renaissance, with the family at the forefront of the movement and its women playing a pivotal role.
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