The normative grounds of legitimacy of the Indian state has now shifted to Hindu nationalism, as consecrated in inaugration of the Ram Temple. Once State is elevated as representative of an entire civilization, there is little space left for contestation between state & society.
A landmark essay in @Equatormag by one of the foremost Palestinian intellectuals today on why the western mind represses the reality of the Palestinian catastrophe in order to salvage the rotting fiction of its own moral innocence. Essential: https://t.co/G1MAdqwKDL
This has made sense of something I have been grappling with for a long time regarding the response to Gaza/Palestine in general, defined so clearly here as ‘moral stupidity’
#WATCH | Delhi: On the Supreme Court asking High Courts to decide contempt petitions over the alleged violation of bulldozer action guidelines, Advocate Anas Tanweer says, “After the bulldozer guidelines were issued, there were certain states that did not follow those guidelines… Today, the Supreme Court, taking into account that there could be questions of fact—and the Supreme Court will not go into questions of fact—has remanded those matters to the jurisdictional High Courts. It has given them the power to entertain it as contempt of this Court, as well as asked them to take help from the sessions judge or the district judge concerned in case of fact-finding. The grievance must be addressed in the High Courts first, and obviously, a Special Leave Petition (SLP) against their order can be filed before the Supreme Court if the state or the parties are not satisfied.”
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant inaugurates the new District Court Complex in Gurugram, saying judicial reforms cannot be limited to speedy disposal of cases. He stressed that while efficiency in the justice delivery system is essential, it can never come at the cost of constitutional values, and called for a justice system that is humane, sensitive and accessible #SupremeCourt
This is not the story of just one person. Having handled cases arising from Foreigners Tribunals for a decade, I have seen how FTs, and at times even constitutional courts act with arbitrariness, stripping genuine citizens of their citizenship and the rights that come with it.
A truck left Madhya Pradesh on the night of 2 August 2022. It carried cattle and three men from Amravati in Maharashtra. Near Barakhad village, in the Seoni Malwa police area, a crowd stopped it. The crowd beat the three men with sticks and staves. Nazir Ahmed, a man of about fifty, did not survive. The other two lived to tell the court what happened.
Read more: https://t.co/KNWTMYIb08
#Maharashtra #moblynching #Judge #TabassumKhan