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Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
There is a phrase judges sometimes use : This shocks the conscience of the Court. The NSA may not exactly be the law on sedition, on which the SC has laid down certain guidelines fifty years ago. However, the undisputed facts of this case have been in the public domain for a long time. In the past, a simple post card has been treated as a PIL. Courts must feel a special obligation to protect the freedom of the press, the most valuable part of the freedom of expression, which is a fundamental right. It would have been wonderful if the apex court had been pleased to take suo motto cognisance of this case, called for the records and proceedings. Passed the sort of strictures that would have chilled the blood of would be tyrants for the future.
What a relief. Political parties promise the moon in their Manifestos. What would get my vote is a sincere, heartfelt promise : We will bring India’s rank in the first fifty in the Global Index of Press Freedom.
There is a phrase judges sometimes use : This shocks the conscience of the Court. The NSA may not exactly be the law on sedition, on which the SC has laid down certain guidelines fifty years ago. However, the undisputed facts of this case have been in the public domain for a long time. In the past, a simple post card has been treated as a PIL. Courts must feel a special obligation to protect the freedom of the press, the most valuable part of the freedom of expression, which is a fundamental right. It would have been wonderful if the apex court had been pleased to take suo motto cognisance of this case, called for the records and proceedings. Passed the sort of strictures that would have chilled the blood of would be tyrants for the future.
What a relief. Political parties promise the moon in their Manifestos. What would get my vote is a sincere, heartfelt promise : We will bring India’s rank in the first fifty in the Global Index of Press Freedom.