Exceptions that might be justified in the small wars of Punjab, Kashmir have become part of the normal fabric of policing. The emergency has become the everyday.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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