When an institution tasked with public safety is caught denying the use of pellet guns even as hospital records and camera footage confirm otherwise, the question is no longer about one protest or one policy. It is about whether the establishment — courts, police, and political machinery combined — can still claim the moral authority to win the trust of student protesters.
The #CJP's decision to consider a return to the streets is not likely to be impulsive. It is a potential response to a broken compact. If agreements — verbal, written, or otherwise — are violated, and if the judiciary remains a passive spectator while the police file complaints selectively, then faith in institutional arbitration collapses. Then the establishment, sadly and violative of our #Constitution, now seems to consist of three parts: the courts, the police, and the political-bureaucratic force. That wasn’t the way it was meant to be. #GodiMedia was trashed out of any fourth-pillar status.
When the remaining three democratic pillars appear aligned against accountability, the street becomes the only forum left. That’s not a comfortable place to be and that is indeed the danger we should be trying to avoid. Trust killed means Fear is dead too.
What makes this moment politically significant is not the jousting in #Parliament — that is just theater for #GenZ. It is the generational clarity currently on display. These are not young "lambs" waiting to be shepherded by old narratives about foreign funding or media bias. They recognize the selective application of law, the politics of rehabilitation, and the deployment of cultural proxies to delegitimize dissent. They laugh at the old tropes and they have no fear. No, even fulminating #KanganaRanaut is just a putrid Aunty who needs a chill pill.
The CJP seems to have every reason to lose faith in the establishment, however defined. And when a generation that sees through institutional gaslighting decides the street matters more than the courtroom, the establishment's real crisis begins. It is no longer about managing a protest. It is about managing a trust deficit that no amount of parliamentary rhetoric or even electoral victories can fix.
This is utterly appalling. Even in the days of the JP Movement leading up to the Emergency, there was no bar by the @UnivofDelhi on students joining any of his protests, and a couple of members of my Union Cabinet at St Stephen’s, including the late Chandan Mitra, openly did so.
If one of India’s foremost public universities is allowed to threaten its students and faculty with significant consequences if they attend a protest, it has a chilling effect on democratic speech and expression. Most DU students are not so privileged as to ignore such a sternly-worded warning without fearing that their academic or professional prospects might suffer if they attended the protest.
A university is meant to teach critical thinking and independent assessment of issues, not to stifle these very qualities. Shame on those at the @UnivofDelhi who saw fit to issue such a tweet. They are unworthy of holding any position at an institution of higher learning in a democracy.
@BrindaAdige@DelhiPolice Dear CJI-granting hearing to an aggrieved party is not
“ waste of time.”It is a constitutional obligation on you & COURT to hear an aggrieved party, be he AdaniAmbani or a cockroach https://t.co/54KfvHcS1C is elementary that SC is a guardian of constitution & people’s liberties.
Watching Chetan Bhagat on @ndtv . He spoke about winning back public trust—by ending corruption, stopping paper leaks, and by not hammering the youth with lathi charges.
What struck me most was his candid attack on chamchagiri.
Having served in government for decades, I have seen sycophancy at close quarters. Officers and supplicants would queue up to tell Ministers, "Good news, Sir! "
"Aap ne kamaal kar diya, Sir!"
Honest feedback was often the first casualty. Those who told the truth were sidelined as being
" negative" or " critical."
@chetan_bhagat exposed this tendency with unusual clarity—frankly, bluntly, but softly- without rancour or politics.
He just spoke plain common sense. No nonsense.
I hope more people listen to him.
I was going to post that Supreme Court should take Sou Moto Notice about Policemen not wearing Name Tags while beating the protestors, which we have seen earlier in Farmers Protest too, But then I remembered that Chief Justice is the one who termed these students Cockroachs 🪳
@arvindojha
you're a disgrace, man. you said on live television that 'police ke haath-paon phool gaye', and what about the protestors? Don't you see how brutally the police are using force?
#BREAKING Sr Adv Devadatt Kamat mentions issue of #LokSabha Speaker approving merger of 6 #ShivSena (UBT) MPs with the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena
CJI Kant: What is the urgency?
Kamat: My functioning as a political party in the Parliament has come to absolute standstill. These MPs are not with me. The Speaker has recognized their merger with another party. And this is for this Parliament session
CJI: Can't promise [listing tomorrow or Friday]. Will see.
Dear India,
As you start your day today do take out 90 seconds to watch this video. And then ask your conscience till when will the government keep shielding the minister, till when will you stay silent ?
Breaking: No #Bulldozer action to demolish the house of An Accused for a period of two years from the date of registration of the FIR, Justice Atul Sreedharan, Siddharth Nandan Dissents
In an ideal world, what happened today in Delhi would have led to suo motu proceedings in either the Delhi High Court or the Supreme Court of India. However, our world is far from ideal and our judiciary seemingly less and less independent by the day.
During the #Mandal hearing for a stay on the office memorandum, the late Justice K N Singh memorably told off Soli Sorabjee, Attorney General, "Mr Attorney, it is our children who are dying on the streets". Today's Supreme Court?
Breaking: Justice Atul Sreedharan of Allahabad High Court Rules that 'rushing to demolish the dwelling place of a person accused of an offence under the garb of the same being violative of municipal laws, is impermissible the same being a retributive exercise of executive discretion and so, no action may be taken to demolish his house for a period of two years from the date of registration of the FIR
There are those who studied the constitution for their degree; swore by the constitution for their position; decode the constitution daily for their work. And then there are the young protestors in Delhi, who imbibed the letter and spirit of Babasaheb's constitution and practised their rights and freedoms. Our democracy and future is hopeful because of these young protestors. Meanwhile, Govt. - Police - Courts are busy playing "law and order", a game of colonial vintage.