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2026
- Closing Address on Inaugural Day of CPMC 2026 - 31.07.2026
A closing address on the inaugural day of the Commonwealth Peace Mediation Conference 2026, offered as a personal reflection to Justice Surya Kant, Chief Justice of India, and to delegates from India and the Commonwealth. The speaker describes a journey of nearly fifty years toward understanding a larger design, beginning with entering the Supreme Court of India.
- Death of Scarcity - How GTC Is Rewriting the Philosophy of Money
For centuries, the article says, the philosophy of assets and money has been anchored in the belief that value arises from scarcity: what is rare is valuable and what is abundant is ordinary. It examines how Gaayatri Goodwill Coin (GTC) challenges that premise and rewrites the philosophy of money.
- The Dance of Capital and the Arth Chakr - Part II
Part II takes up the three classical pillars of investment examined in Part I — security, return and exit — and the ethical vacuum that often surrounds them. It presents Gaayatri Goodwill Coin (GTC) as a design built on programmed scarcity and a real-world adoption bridge rooted in verified human service (PICS).
- The Dance of Capital and the Arth Chakr (cycle of money)
From a small saver placing funds in a bank deposit to a global hedge fund allocating billions, the article says the psychology of investment remains simple once the jargon is stripped away. Three basic questions emerge, beginning with whether the investment is secure and what the return is.
2025
- Fiat Currency to Stable Coin: Finance Moving into the Fourth Dimension
Money, the article says, has always been more than paper, coins or digits on a screen: it is a tool of exchange that allows one person to exchange the value of their product, service or labour with the equivalent value created by another. It traces how that truth remains as the forms of money evolve from fiat currency toward stable coins, described as finance moving into the fourth dimension.
- Justice is not judiciary dependent – Mediation and AI are the future of justice
Traditional courts, arbitrations, tribunals, commissions and other judicial authorities, long regarded as the final bastion of fairness, accountability and civil order, have always been under intense scrutiny. The article argues that justice is not dependent on the judiciary alone, and that mediation and artificial intelligence are the future of justice.
- Students World Cup - Launch - 12.07.2025
A welcome address at the official launch of the Students World Cup on 12.07.2025, presented not merely as the inauguration of a tournament but as a movement tied to the goal of Viksit Bharat @ 2047. The National Sports Policy 2025 and the Students World Cup are described as a critical milestone on that path.
- Shrimat Bhagwad Geeta Conclave - Art of Advocacy - O.P.Jindal University, Sonipat -May 7, 2025
An address at the Shrimat Bhagwad Geeta Conclave on the art of advocacy, held at O.P. Jindal University, Sonipat, on 07.05.2025. It traces how verses of the Gita, heard from childhood in family prayer and later study, have shaped the author’s understanding of advocacy.
- Sanaatan Dharm and Modern Law: A Collaborative Jurisprudence at 4th World Congress of Vedic Sciences – Sastra Deemed University, Thanjavur 24.12.2024
An address at the 4th World Congress of Vedic Sciences at Sastra Deemed University, Thanjavur, on 24.12.2024, exploring the intersection of sanaatan dharm and modern law. The speaker argues for revisiting the basis, objectives, principles and path of both, and for working out a collaborative sanaatan jurisprudence, giving sanaatan dharm precedence as the earlier of the two.
- The Future of Mediation: A Pathway for Law Students at Jamia Hamdard University - 22.02.2025
An address to law students at Jamia Hamdard University on 22.02.2025 on the future of mediation. It traces how, as societies settled, disputes that were once resolved by physical force gave way, after Magna Carta and later constitutional thought, to legal institutions, and considers mediation as a pathway from that history.
2024
- Shri Krishan and the Art of Advocacy
As the war of the Mahaabhaarat approached, Arjuna was overtaken by a vision of its grim aftermath and fell into deep moral and emotional conflict, seeing the war not as a path to victory but as a catalyst for irreversible social disruption. The article likens that struggle to a judge facing a dilemma in rendering judgment, and considers the art of advocacy in the light of Shri Krishan’s counsel.
- The Complex Dynamics of Religious Conversion or Why Conversion?
The article sets India’s modern history from the end of the Mahabharat and considers a long arc of cultural prosperity, foreign invasion and survival, which it says is reflected in the Indian Constitution. From that background it examines the complex dynamics of religious conversion, and why conversion takes place.
- Shri Ram and Art of Advocacy
The article reflects on Shri Ram and the art of advocacy, drawing on episodes and counsel from that tradition to consider how a case is framed and a cause is spoken. It places advocacy in a moral as well as a professional setting.
2023
- Finance Revolution 4.0 - Cryptocurrency Reaching the Unreached
The article discusses cryptocurrency as part of what it calls Finance Revolution 4.0, and the prospect of digital value reaching people who have remained outside conventional finance. It considers how new instruments of money may extend access to those previously unreached.
- Shrimat Bhagwad Geeta - Confluence of Sanaatan Knowledge and Wisdom
The article describes a webbed and networked world in which some act with integrity, faith and trust while others exploit and suppress the will of fellow beings. It turns to Chapter 16 of the Shrimat Bhagwad Geeta, where Shri Krishan expounds the attributes of these energies, as a confluence of sanaatan knowledge and wisdom.
- International Mediation Day - October 19, 2023
A note for International Mediation Day on 19.10.2023, tracing the mediation movement in the United States to dissatisfaction with litigated divorce in the early 1970s. It records the founding of the Family Mediation Association in 1975 by Jim Coogler, Steve Erickson and their peers, and Coogler’s book on structured mediation in divorce settlement.
- Law in Sports Governance, it's place in the Modern Times - Colombo - 03.04.2023
An address in Colombo on 03.04.2023 on the place of law in sports governance in modern times. It opens with thanks to Aravinda De Silva and to colleagues from the bar and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association gathered for the discussion.
- Introduction Chief Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud - 2nd Soli Sorabjee Memorial Lecture at CLC 23, Goa - March 9, 2023
An introduction of Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, at the 2nd Soli Sorabjee Memorial Lecture at the Commonwealth Law Conference 23 in Goa on 09.03.2023. The speaker reflects on how people are brought into the life of a person, an institution and a nation, in the presence also of the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
2022
- Supreme Court - Lost Traditions
Recalling entry to the Supreme Court Bar in 1976, the article describes traditions of the Court that then seemed to hold great logic, reasoning and majesty, and the wonder with which a young advocate served in search of truth. It reflects on traditions that, in the author’s view, have since been lost, including in the practice around bail, notice and stay.
- 73 Years Young High Court of Rajasthan
A reflection on the High Court of Rajasthan at seventy-three years, describing law and legal institutions as remaining young through the dynamic energy with which they evolve. Courts, it says, march forward to protect suppressed wills and unheard cries, and to punish those who violate the law.
- 40 hrs, 5 days - Mediation Training Program – 05-09.03.2022
A reflection on a forty-hour, five-day mediation training programme held from 05.03.2022 to 09.03.2022, described as an absorbing, reflective and fascinating journey. It was shared with twenty-six colleagues and two trainers, and approached by the author from a spiritual and philosophical point of view.
2021
- Art of Advocacy
The author presents himself only as a mirror reflecting the wisdom of other speakers, and then turns to the art of advocacy. Since the beginning of civil society, it says, kings and common people alike have needed professional help to express their concerns, interests and entitlements against violation of law, rights, contract and trust.
- Peace Mediation - Legal Revolution 5.0
The article draws a fine distinction between meditation and mediation, the presence or absence of the letter T: in meditation the Self acts as teacher, while in mediation that third party is the mediator. It presents peace mediation as what it calls Legal Revolution 5.0.
2020
- Spirituality and Human Rights - Human Rights Day - 10.12.2020
A Human Rights Day address on 10.12.2020, described as a momentous occasion for a twin sangam. The first is of two seekers and thinkers, Justice Dipak Misra, former Chief Justice of India, and Prof. Bharat Gupt, classicist and theatre theorist; the article then considers spirituality and human rights together.
- Conflict free woman, moving into fifth dimension
The article discusses ‘We the Women of India’, a platform crafted by Shobhaa Ji, as a means of bringing into the open issues that are normally pushed under the carpet, and which may later erupt with destructive force. It considers the conflict-free woman, constituting half the world, and a movement into what it calls the fifth dimension.
- The legend and significance of Raksha Bandhan in Hindu Culture
Whenever a sister ties the sacred thread on her brother’s right hand, the article says, she recites a mantra recalling the protection given to Raja Bali through adherence to a promise. It then sets out the legend of Vaaman, the fifth incarnation of Bhagwaan Vishnu, and the significance of Raksha Bandhan in Hindu culture.
- Challenges and Prospects of Hindu Diaspora
A closing reflection after three days of meeting members of the Hindu diaspora, described as a treat to hear how each is working to realise the Self and to help others do so in the country of their residence. It considers the challenges and prospects before that diaspora.
- Law Profession as a Career - 1
The law profession, the article says, evolves slowly: one grows with it, and it grows into the person. It then offers ten mantras for the initial years, beginning with being in the chamber, office or court from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., keeping Friday evenings off.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Legal Institutions
The article opens with the history of chess-playing computers, from Bobby Fischer’s games against the Greenblatt program in 1972 to IBM’s Deep Blue, as a preface to artificial intelligence and legal institutions. It considers how AI may come to bear on courts, the profession and the appointment of judges.
2019
- Rig Ved - First Mandal, First Sukt, 1-9 Mantr
A presentation of the first nine mantras of the first sukta of the first mandal of the Rig Veda, given in the translation of Max Müller and Ralph T.H. Griffith. It begins with the praise of Agni as the chosen priest, minister of sacrifice, and hotar, the lavishest of wealth.
- Democracy, Politics and the Law - The judiciary as the last line of defense
A conference address on democracy, politics and the law, and the judiciary as the last line of defence. While other speakers had looked to the past, the author says, the effort here is forward-looking — “forward view driving” — across a wide canvas that still keeps an eye on what has gone by.
2018
- MeToo – Unburden your baggage, cleanse your soul, save your daughters…
The article reflects on the MeToo moment through a series of times — a time to get hurt, to heal, to speak, to strike back — and on what follows the time of silence, suffering and mourning. It calls on the reader to unburden baggage, cleanse the soul, and save their daughters.
- SCAORA - E Journal - Introduction
An introduction to the SCAORA e-journal, arguing that the strength of a nation is directly proportionate to the integrity of its institutions and to inter-institutional bonding. In a webbed world moving through the fourth industrial revolution, it says, the role of institutions in nation-building will also depend on how quickly they adapt.
2017
- Digitization of Courts and Block Chain Technology
The post points to a conversation published by the Lawyers Collective and argues that technological developments must continue to happen with full freedom for innovation. Blockchain technology and its application in cryptocurrencies, it says, are going through a teething period; they are not drugs or weapons.
- NAT - NOT2 Principle - Neither a Thinker - Nor Open To Thoughts
The article describes a mindset in which some decision-makers naturally resist new ideas and projects, a resistance it traces to deep insecurity and fear. It restates the NAT-NOT2 principle — neither a thinker, nor open to thoughts — and argues that new ideas with the potential to empower the country must nonetheless take shape.
- Seven Wise Questions
A set of seven questions, with answers, beginning with “Why are you doing what you are doing?” and the reply that it is to have a better life for one’s fellow beings, so that earlier sacrifice for the nation does not go in vain. Further questions ask why one would disturb the status quo, and what is sought by doing so.
- Diary Entries - Part 6
A diary entry for 30.09.1977, recording that the Supreme Court Bar Association disapproved the appointment of Justice D.A. Desai when the strength of the Court was increased from 13 to 17, and that Justice V.D. Tulzapurkar and Justice D.A. Desai were sworn in. It notes their relative seniority in the Bombay High Court at the time.
- It Exists Forever - Part 2
The second part of a work of legal fiction, opening on a Sunday morning as Justice Appa Muthukrishnan walks the lawn of his official bungalow on Tughlak Road, New Delhi. The narrative continues the story begun in Part 1.
- It Exists Forever - Part - 1
The opening part of a work of legal fiction. Justice Ranjeet Singh, at work in his study, hears a slow knock at the door and calls the visitor in.
- Diary Entries - Part 5
A diary account of April 1977, when a change of regime followed the Janata Party coming to power and the swearing-in of Morarji Desai as Prime Minister, and a change was felt in the air of the Supreme Court. Niren De was replaced as Attorney General for India by S.V. Gupte, described as an exceptionally respected Senior Advocate.
- Further Diary Entries – Part 4
Further diary notes from early years in the Supreme Court, recording that neither Mr S.C. Agrawal nor Mr R.K. Garg nor Mr V.J. Francis told the young advocate to do any work, nor was he paid, but that he was to come, watch, read and learn. Ramamurty & Co. is described as a well-structured firm present in important constitutional matters.
- Further Diary Entries - Moving Ahead in Lateral Time
A diary entry for 05.08.1976 (Thursday), when matters were over by 4.00 p.m. and, at 4.15 p.m., the tentative cause list for the next week was taken to be settled in the Chief Justice’s Court, a Thursday practice the young advocate was then asked to attend.
- Diary Entry – 02.08.1976 (Monday) - Day Two
A diary entry for the second day in the Supreme Court, 02.08.1976. The young advocate reached 20-A Lawyers’ Chambers at 9 a.m., and records the arrival and welcome of Mr Sikka, Mr V.J. Francis, Mr S.C. Agrawal, Mr R.K. Garg and Mr D.P. Singh.
- Forty One years in Supreme Court - Diary Entry August 1, 1976
A diary of 01.08.1976, the first day in the Supreme Court, written forty-one years later. On 31.07.1976 the twenty-one-and-a-half-year-old law graduate from Jaswant College, University of Jodhpur, was seen off at Jodhpur by the staff of his father, Justice D.P. Gupta, Judge of the High Court of Rajasthan, to travel on the Delhi Mail.
- A historical launch – Basketball India Players Association (BIPA)
29.07.2017 is described as a historic date for basketball in India: the launch of the Basketball India Players Association, after almost two years of discussions among sports professionals, former Olympians, Arjuna and Dhyan Chand awardees, and captains of the Indian men’s and women’s teams, with national and international players.
- Dimension Theory as basis of GDPS (Growth, Development, Progress and Social-Engineering)
As some become aware of a fifth dimension, the article says, institutions are gearing up to meet the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution in a VUCA — volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous — world. It presents dimension theory as a basis for growth, development, progress and social engineering.
2016
- Essential step to cleanse the economy
The article considers the world as having moved from a third dimension toward a fourth and a fifth, in which the borders and time-limits of the industrial age lose their significance. Against that background it discusses an essential step to cleanse the economy, including in the period of demonetisation, as people also become more concerned with health and cleansing.
- Preface to Third Edition of Shrimat Bhagwad Geeta - The Song Celestial - A Lawyer's Perspective
A preface to the third edition of Shrimat Bhagwad Geeta — The Song Celestial — A Lawyer’s Perspective. As the world moves from the third toward the fourth and fifth dimensions, the author says, reading, understanding and assimilation of the Gita has more relevance than ever, with not a single word lacking an underlying thought.
2015
- SpotLaw Apps - An idea finally encapasulated after 34 years
From conception to a succession certificate, the article says, almost every facet of life is touched by cases and by judgments; law governs every issue of human existence, social behaviour and State governance. After thirty-four years, that idea is described as finally encapsulated in the SpotLaw apps.
- On Being a Son of a Judge - 10.10.1978
An essay dated 10.10.1978 on being the son of a judge, opening with the thought that it can seem a sin to be born in a family still able to hold to values, integrity and hard work. It turns to the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter VI, on the end of one who has faith yet cannot control himself, and reflects on that inheritance.
- Role of Information Technology in dispensation of Justice
Truth, justice and bliss, the article says, are the basic nature of every human being and of the social order, while illegality and disharmony continue to arise; judges and advocates work, in that image, as kidneys of the system. It then considers the role of information technology in the dispensation of justice.
2014
- Introductory Address on the Release of ‘The Origins of Astronomy, the Calendar & Time’ by Shri Kosla Vepa
An introductory address at an international seminar on determining cultural continuity since the Vedic and epic eras through the dating of astronomical references, on the release of The Origins of Astronomy, the Calendar & Time by Shri Kosla Vepa. The speaker describes himself as a nameless comet among the galaxy of those present.
- Welcome Address and Introduction on release of 'Shrimat Bhagwad Geeta - The Song Celestial' at IIC on 24.01.2014 by Justice A.K.Patnaik
A welcome address at the India International Centre on 24.01.2014, on the release of Shrimat Bhagwad Geeta — The Song Celestial by Justice A.K. Patnaik, on a cold Delhi evening. The speaker invokes the divine energy within and around those present, and looks to the awakening that the speakers may kindle.
2013
- Towards Economic Independence...
Created and manipulated poverty, the article says, maintained by a well-managed economic structure, is a major reason for economic imbalance around the globe. Money is treated as another form of energy which, once minted, does not disappear but passes from hand to hand, and the piece considers a path toward economic independence.
- Neither A Thinker - Nor Open To Thoughts – The NAT- NOT2 Principle
The natural response of some decision-makers to new ideas and projects, the article says, is a mindset born of deep insecurity and fear, which it traces to a long historical onslaught on India. It sets out the NAT-NOT2 principle — neither a thinker, nor open to thoughts — and argues that ideas with the potential to create an empowered India must still take shape.
- First Mantr of the First Sukta of the First Mandal of Rig Ved
A close reading of the first mantra of the first sukta of the first mandal of the Rig Veda, beginning ‘agnimeeley purohitam…’. The first word is explained as made of Agni, energy, and eeley, to initiate or pray, and three sources of energy — sun, fire and chakras — are described, with the ways of initiating them.
- Gaayatri Mantr
A word-by-word reading of the Gaayatri mantra (Rig Veda 3.62.10; Sama Veda 1462), from Om as the total phonetic universe through bhu, burvah, suvaah, tat savitur varenyam, bhargo devasya dheemahi, and dhiyo yo nah prachodayat. Each term is given a short meaning in turn.
2012
- The Karmic Color of Money
The freedom to upload information in the public domain, the article says, has led to an exponential growth in communication and in the data available to everyone. Against films and accounts of modern finance, it then considers the karmic colour of money — the character money takes from the way it is created and used.
- The Fund Managers and Bankers - Lakshmi and Kuber
Money as currency, the article says, replaced the barter system after the industrial age around 1770 and is a tool of exchange and a form of energy, with no attribute except the value printed on it; yet the way money is created gives it a karmic character. Lakshmi is presented as the fund manager of money arising from creative, positive karm, and Kuber as the fund manager of money arising from exploitation.
- Insurance Credit Funding for India
The article argues that those who determine financing policy in India have shown ignorance of crumbling world economic structures that, it says, every intellectually honest economist could see. It recalls the Resurgent India Bonds of 1998, the India Millennium Deposits of 2000, and the Infrastructure Debt Fund of 2011, and puts the case for insurance credit funding.
- Insurance Credit Fund Vs. Bank Debt Fund
The article contrasts an insurance credit fund with bank debt funding of infrastructure, against a backdrop of technology and public works from agriculture and housing to electricity, satellites and Wi-Fi. After the industrial age and the rise of currency, it says, such projects have been financed by banks and, after the Second World War, by the World Bank and other development funds; India’s infrastructure investment in the Twelfth Five Year Plan is then discussed.
2009
- Look East For Answer - DNA 11.07.2009
Published in DNA on 11.07.2009, the article argues that by removing the shackles of criminality from consenting adult partners, the Delhi High Court took not only a step but a quantum leap toward freedom of will, thought and action. Consensual sex amongst adults, it says, does not degrade or corrupt human beings, whatever may be said by those who chant the mantra of morality.
The list is taken from aruneshwargupta.blogspot.com. Titles, dates and summaries follow the original posts.