The issue of inequality has assumed the blazing limelight at a time when inequality in India is said to be higher than it was in the British Raj. It's a ripe situation for half-truths and incendiary statements.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
“[Protestors seem to be] refusing to be governed by a law they consider contrary to their sense of justice and to the foundational principles of the Constitution. They are going much beyond the Supreme Court’s highly technical, narrower and legal techniques of examining the constitutionality of parliamentary laws.”
One hopes the author is correct in assuming that anti-CAA protestors are in fact doing that based on at least a reading of the relevant sections of the constitution. Because otherwise, it’s just identity politics at it worst.
The author’s web series on legal awareness is excellent btw 🙂
Bold experiment indeed ..
“[Protestors seem to be] refusing to be governed by a law they consider contrary to their sense of justice and to the foundational principles of the Constitution. They are going much beyond the Supreme Court’s highly technical, narrower and legal techniques of examining the constitutionality of parliamentary laws.”
One hopes the author is correct in assuming that anti-CAA protestors are in fact doing that based on at least a reading of the relevant sections of the constitution. Because otherwise, it’s just identity politics at it worst.
The author’s web series on legal awareness is excellent btw 🙂