Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Constitution, india, Politics, Rights, Rule of Law on Jun 19th, 2008
For starters, I don’t intend to be prophetic in my evaluation of the recently concluded Gujjar Community-Rajasthan Government wrangle. However, I cannot help but observe, quite candidly, that the whole situation serves as a dark episode in the history of civil liberty movements in this country. The reasons for such analysis are not too far [...]
Posted in Democracy, Human Rights, Politics on Jun 18th, 2008
Ghazala Khan from the Pakistani Spectator interviewed me yesterday on blogging and the blog itself. The interview transcript is now published by the Pakistani Spectator here. I must say I was startled by some of the questions myself. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditTweet thisSubscribe to this postPrint for laterTell a friend
Posted in Human Rights, Politics, Rights, Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2008
My good friend Rahul Narayanan wrote on his Gtalk tagline; We do not protect our civil liberties by sacrificing them I asked him whether he wrote this in a particular context and he asked me to google ‘David Davis’. I found out that David Davis is a former British MP who resigned after the new [...]
Posted in Democracy, india, Politics, Rights, Rule of Law on Jun 15th, 2008
On one of the days I wrote a letter to Subhadra in a possible explanation as to why I would want to do such things as Im doing in Dantewada. In as much as Subhadra should be getting a copy of the letter, I managed to make a copy and have produced it below. Dear [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2008
Both the teams left towards Konta camp at around eight in the monrning. Now the road to Konta is one where the maximum camps are located in the area. In fact, a few months ago in Errabol camp a mass killing of 25 people including women and children had occurred at point blank range. At [...]
Posted in Democracy, Human Rights, india, Politics, Rights, Rule of Law on Jun 13th, 2008
Day 3 (8th June’08 ) Rains last night had led us to alter our plans and we made move for a village called Potenaar. It was a nine km trek to jangli thana which took us about an hour and forty five minutes to cover. On our way we were stopped by a patrolling squad [...]