Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Democracy, india, Politics, Rights on Jun 13th, 2008
Day 2 (7th June’08) Nandini and I went on motorcycles to this palce called Pulondi today. On out way we crossed strict and clear salwa judum territory with sign boards of “Salwa Judum Zindabad” all over. We cross that area and a few camps. From then on we faced road blocks with bridges being broken [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 13th, 2008
The Social Blog now features in the list of the Top 100 civil liberties blogs. conducted by the Criminal Justice Degrees Guide. For my readers, Thank you. This is a welcome incentive to blog more regularly. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditTweet thisSubscribe to this postPrint for laterTell a friend
Posted in Democracy, Human Rights, india, Politics, Rights, Rule of Law on Jun 13th, 2008
Day 1 (6th June’08) – We reached this place called Jagdalgaon in the morning and left for Dantewada from there. It was the ten of us in a single Tata Sumo. – On reaching Dantewada town, we got down to have breakfast. At breakfast, I saw a guy standing right next to me in civilian [...]
Posted in Democracy, india, Politics, Rights, Rule of Law on Jun 13th, 2008
I spent the past eight days with a group of independent reseach scholars and students in the jungles of dantewada, Chattisgarh. Our idea was to visit the conflict zones and study the large scale human rights violations committed by the Salwa Judum, document them and present these testimonies to the National Human Rights Commission that [...]