If your support for freedom and a fair trial extends only to people whose ideas you approve of and agree with, then it isn't really a principle. It's patronage.
Any Magistrate who orders custody of citizens for waving the Indian flag at the country's most famous protest site as a *peace* issue must be proceeded against under law. And please stop calling the Executive Magistrate a court. Delhi Police acting as both Prosecutor and judge
the moment i handed over my phone and entered, three policemen started brutally assaulting me. they kicked me and used their elbows and knees to beat me with as much force as they could.
थोड़ा उमर ख़ालिद, शरजील इमाम को भी याद कीजिए। छह साल हो गए। ट्रायल भी नहीं। ज़मानत भी नहीं। आकृति चौधरी को भी याद कीजिए, जिस पर फ़र्ज़ी आधार पर NSA लगा दिया गया, सत्यम वर्मा को भी याद कीजिए। स्टेन स्वामी और साईं बाबा को भी। दस साल साईं बाबा को बिना किसी आधार के जेल में रखा गया।
सड़क पर सुरक्षा बलों की तैनाती आपातकाल की आहट बताई जा रही है। दरअसल यह तेरह साल की चुप्पियों के अपराधबोध की सांस्थानिक अभिव्यक्ति है।
The Kanwariyas have a documented history of vandalising public property and causing nuisance.
Never has any police forcibly picked them up from trains.
No metro station is ever shut down to prevent them from moving around.
Nobody visits their home to warn them.
That privilege is reserved for people worried about free and fair elections in the so called largest democracy.
I cannot imagine how a civilised society can allow this. This disruption of normal movement, inconvenience to the people around most of whom are tax payers and an utter disrespect for civic sensibilities is endorsed & facilitated by the state.
And not for one day. But for a good two weeks.
These annual, noisy, chaos-causing religious yatras in the heart of the national capital are fine, but students protesting in a confined and dedicated site are a threat to law and order.
So this was an interesting response. Does this mean the PM usually meet people in town hall settings to answer questions about their daily life problems then?
I have not seen him engage directly with the Cockroach Junta Party, which is a grassroot movement.
Correct me if I am wrong.
u cannot pay me to watch dhurandar bro i am on the polar opposite of that target audience its just never gna happen even if its the only movie forcefully running in theatres for the next 3 months
If you can watch Dhurandhar in one sitting surely you can also read Animal Farm in one sitting. Smaller attention spans are an excuse. Own your stupid fucking choices.
I’m not targeting any political party by name, but let’s stop pretending this is normal. In the last ten years, crimes, corruption, assaults, rapes and harassment involving ministers, councillors and party members have hit a peak we’ve never seen before. Yes, crimes existed earlier. Yes, Lalu’s era was lawless. Yes, UP has always had a reputation. That excuse is tired and dishonest.
What feels different now is entitlement. A dangerous one. People aligned with this party behave like laws don’t apply to them because practically they don’t. There’s no fear of consequence. No urgency for justice. No accountability. When a minister is caught with ₹100 crore and walks free with ₹90 crore still intact, the message is clear: evidence means nothing, power means everything.
This isn’t corruption anymore. This is institutional rot. Courts move slowly, agencies selectively wake up and public outrage is managed until people get bored. The accused don’t even bother hiding anymore. They roam freely, give interviews, attend rallies because they know no one will touch them.
So where are we heading as a nation? Towards a place where morality is optional if you’re politically useful. Where justice depends on proximity to power. Where the system bends not because it’s broken, but because it’s been instructed to.
And what can one person do? Honestly very little. When power is concentrated in the hands of one man and that man protects his own, fair trials become a myth. Democracy starts looking less like a system & more like a stage managed illusion.
That’s the real danger not just that crimes are happening, but that we’re being slowly conditioned to tolerate them. Outrage is numbed, questions are buried and silence is sold as maturity. This is how democracies don’t collapse overnight, they decay quietly, while people convince themselves nothing can be done. The moment citizens stop demanding accountability & start accepting injustice as “normal,” power stops fearing the public & when power stops fearing the people, the country isn’t being governed anymore it’s being taken over 🙏🏻