Inclusive & Equitable India

Foundation for Inclusive & Equitable India

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Professor André Béteille was the Indian intellectual I most admired. As @nandinisundar writes in this superb assessment of his life and work: “Béteille repeatedly insisted that a sociologist cannot be a moralist, to study society was not to take sides. Yet in his dedication to comparative analysis, to clear-eyed understanding, and to the discipline of the mind, he showed that doing sociology could itself be a form of public service and a moral intervention.”
https://t.co/pTZ0AVs6T6

[Inclusive & Equitable India @i_e_india]

Lack of basic humanity, fraternity..Is this value of human life in our society?

[Narendra Nath Mishra @iamnarendranath]

Trigger Warning-violence
दिल्ली के कालका जी मंदिर में हत्या।
बात बस इतनी कि मंदिर में प्रसाद में चुन्नी नहीं दिया।सेवादार की हत्या!

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

#Imp: Tomorrow, two new judges will take oath at the Supreme Court of India, the court of last resort for the downtrodden, the poorest, the most vulnerable against the full might of the State.

And yet, what a travesty it will be that one of those two judges arrives under a cloud of grave and unresolved questions of integrity, silently coronated as a future Chief Justice of India. What a scene it will be: judges greeting one another, the Bar applauding cheerfully, a constitutional ceremony cloaking what is in truth nothing short of a fraud upon the Constitution.

One must shudder at the visual that tomorrow will produce. Chief Justice of India, B.R. Gavai administering the oath to a man carrying no answers to such grave questions. A man repeating the words of allegiance to the Constitution “without fear or favour, affection or ill-will” IN THE NAME OF GOD, even as whispers about his integrity run through the corridors. This is no oath. It is theatre.

The members of the Bar will clap in great harmony. The Supreme Court Bar Association, under @vikassinghSrAdv, has maintained a silence so loud that it indicts the entire fraternity. Not a single word has been uttered on this controversy. That silence is complicity. The Bar is the mother of the Bench, but what does it mean for the child when the mother herself abdicates her duty?

Amidst the sea of “Honourables” and “Learneds” who will gather tomorrow, only one figure will truly stand tall—Justice B.V. Nagarathna. The lone woman there, she will carry herself with the quiet authority of someone who did what she could, within her limited space, to defend the dignity of her institution and the sanctity of the Constitution. Will not her presence be both reassuring and heartbreaking? Reassuring because it shows that integrity is still possible, and heartbreaking because she will stand almost alone in that integrity.

Justice Pancholi himself, if not for his own sake, then at least out of fidelity to the institution he owes everything to, should desist from occupying a seat in the Supreme Court. To ascend under such a cloud of grave suspicion would not confer honour but invite disgrace, rendering him a persona non grata in the very court whose dignity he is sworn to uphold. What face will he show to the litigant who stands before him?

The silence of the Bar, the meek judges, the indifference of several of us, all of it adds up to one unmistakable conclusion: we are presiding over the quiet hollowing out of the Supreme Court of India. The institution loses not in a single blow but by small betrayals, by ceremonies such as tomorrow’s that dress up capitulation as continuity.

Tomorrow, if still not stopped by doyens of the Bar, we will witness a Supreme Court turned into a stage for fraud. So, will they find their voice?

[Thomas Piketty @PikettyWIL]

Many of our current political difficulties - not only in France but also in US, UK Germany - in particular due to the rising territorial divisions between the rural poor and the urban poor. Something we see in 19c & early 20c but was circumvented during 20c... & in 21c?
https://t.co/Kfgzn0dbja

[suhas palshikar @PalshikarSuhas]

How inclusive is the drive to check voter authenticity? Who stands to lose? A small study warns that a larger caution is required....

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) has become a convenient alibi—distracting election monitoring and disrupting routine governance. We don’t need the MCC; we need an Election Commission with a spine to enforce existing laws. If we don’t want to end up like our neighbors, where every election result is disputed, the EC must enforce the normal law of the land to ensure truly free and fair elections.

Read my article: https://t.co/0pmigQ2a0z

#ModelCodeOfConduct #ElectionCommission #FreeAndFairElections

[Kailash Satyarthi @k_satyarthi]

आज मुक्ति आश्रम में हमारे पुराने साथी रणबीर ने पूछा, "आजकल हमारे देश में नए-नए बाबाओं-साधुओं, चमत्कार दिखाने वालों और उपदेशकों की बाढ़ आ गई है। लाखों लोगों की भीड़ उनके पीछे भाग रही है। आख़िर ऐसा क्यों हो रहा है?"
मैंने कहा, "मेरे विचार से इसके तीन कारण हैं। पहला, समाज में डर, स्वार्थ, लालच, असुरक्षा और आत्मग्लानि का बढ़ना ; दूसरा, मनुष्य के भीतर ख़ुद पर और ईश्वर पर भरोसा घट जाना; और तीसरा कारण वैज्ञानिक और आध्यात्मिक नजरिए की कमी है। उजाले का घटना ही तो अंधेरे का बढ़ना होता है। फिर भी हमारे देश में संतों की कमी नहीं है, भले ही वे प्रचार और व्यापार में न लगे रहते हों।"

[SOAS Ambedkar Society @SoasAmbedkarSoc]

We invite you to our discussion on "Addressing caste - based Systemic Injustice, Segregation and Discrimination in Indian Prisons"

Date: 29.10.2024
Time: 05:00 pm
Venue : B104, Brunei Gallery SOAS, London

Registration Link : https://t.co/B0jW7OS6gl

[suhas palshikar @PalshikarSuhas]

Yes, more than the connection with Ayodhya ruling, the encouragement to all judicial officers to privilege prayers as guiding light in adjudication will do the damage .....and it's indeed odd that the Ayodhya ruling happens to be a problematic product of appeal to God.

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

India’s largest minority finds itself trapped in a politics of survival—voting not for development but for escape from lynching, bulldozers, and riots.

What we need is a ‘more than Muslim’ politics. My thoughts on what that politics could like like, or at least not look like.

Link: https://t.co/KG1OxuuVtD

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Trust Deficit In Judiciary Might Push People To Vigilantism & Mob Justice, Which Will Erode Rule Of Law : Justice BR Gavai
#SupremeCourt #JusticeGavai

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

Read Jean Dreze on escalation games, arms race, nuclear strategy, and the apocalyptic risk.
https://t.co/TsbDDYQYdM

[Centre for Policy Research @CPR_India]

Join us this Thursday on Zoom for a panel discussion on 'Re-orienting Exit Polls' with @Rukmini, @NeelanjanSircar, @RajatSethi86 & @rahul_tverma.

Details Below

Register: https://t.co/pJCTtPakeh

[Nidhi Razdan @Nidhi]

More than anyone, the judiciary failed him. Meanwhile a convicted rapist and murderer like Gurmeet Ram Rahim gets parole repeatedly. What a shame

[suhas palshikar @PalshikarSuhas]

Pleasure to discuss this with Karan Thapar. Practical difficulties apart, simultaneous elections imvolve change in basic features and moreover, open the doors for changing or replacing the constitution itself, I argue.

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | The Supreme Court has set aside discriminatory provisions of prison manuals of some states while deprecating the practice of caste-based discrimination, distribution of work and segregation of prisoners in separate wards as per their castes. Here's what advocate Disha Wadekar said:

"The judgment has struck down very discriminatory provisions that were there in the prison manual. These provisions basically mandated caste-based assignment of work inside prison as in the cooking will be done by upper caste and cleaning work will be done by lower caste. These kinds of provisions existed in the prison manuals and the court has struck down these provisions."

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

फ़ोन कर और फोटो खिंचा कर युद्ध रुकवाने वाले नेताओं की परीक्षा का समय है। इन सब की नौटंकियों और समझौतों ने दुनिया को युद्ध में झोंक दिया है।

[suhas palshikar @PalshikarSuhas]

When half truths and falsehood are repeated ad nauseam as policy, it becomes necessary to reiterate the fact of distortion. So, I repeat my argument about simultaneous elections and further argue about the larger design to undermine Constitution:

https://t.co/TnCXimj98b

[Rahul Mukherji @RahulMukherji64]

Poli Sci at @UniHD_SAI the Conference on the Future of Indian Democracy. Participants included @jaffrelotc @Rajeev_Bhargava @harsh_mander @pbhushan1 @_YogendraYadav @ManiShankarAiya @seemay @AnjaliB_ . All sessions are on uploaded on Youtube.

https://t.co/NWSky3UZjL