Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Constitution, Court, Democracy, Human Rights, india, Politics, Rights, Rule of Law on Feb 23rd, 2008
Its soon going to be six years since the Gujarat carnage took place in our ‘Democracy’. The actions we have seen so far have not been surprising. The Chief Minister gets re-elected, none of the people who arranged the attack on the muslims have been prosecuted yet and off late, the Court yells at one [...]
Posted in Constitution, Democracy, Human Rights, india, Politics, Rights, Rule of Law on Feb 17th, 2008
A lazy sunday for me. While I was whiling away my time reading the paper I started wondering if there would ever be a time when the Government would apologise for the great wrongs committed against the poor agrarian people that has led to the naxal problem. Or perhaps the dalits. The incident in Australia [...]
Posted in Constitution, Democracy, india, Politics on Feb 15th, 2008
Ambadas Haribhau Dharrao died yesterday. He died in no ordinary manner but as a victim of the hate crimes in the state of Maharashtra. For Raj Thackeray this was the result of him venting out his feelings against the North-Indians while for Ambadas’s family this meant the future denial of their only source of income [...]
Posted in Human Rights on Feb 6th, 2008
This photograph by Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for feature photograph. The vulture seems to be waiting for the child to starve to death. Taken during the Sudan Famine, it is stated that Kevin could’nt take it anymore and committed suicide 3 months later. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 6th, 2008
Arun Gandhi’s post on “Jewish Domination” seems to have drawn quite of lot of flak lately. Why he even had to resign for the very institute in the name of his Grandfather that he had founded. On resigning from the MK Gandhi institute of non-violence at the University of Rochester NY, he wrote, “My intention [...]