The Wages of Impunity: Power, Justice, and Human Rights

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Orient Blackswan, 2004 - 372 Seiten
The Wages of Impunity consists of essays on human rights and civil liberties in India. Reiterating the indispensability of fundamental rights, the essays focus on aspects such as secularism, socialism, and the right to life, liberty, free speech and association. Using the Constitution as the point of departure, the author opens up the complexity of rights through incisive analyses of case law on each of these aspects.
 

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The Saga of Impunity
1
Justice Must be Seen to be Done
13
Colonial Baggage
18
Personal Liberty after Independence
30
Progressive Decay of Democratic Institutions
63
The State as Terrorist
83
More Repressive than Rowlatt
91
Crime and Punishment
102
What is Wrong with Judicial Activism?
209
What Shall We Do with Our Judiciary?
219
A Code of Conduct for Judges
225
An Open Letter to the Chief Justice of India
231
The Andhra Pradesh Lawyers Strike
235
Governors and Politics
241
Privilege and Obligation
245
Political Justice through Concerted Protest
262

The Weird Jurisprudence of a Dead Act
106
The Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958
114
A Lament for the Constitution
118
Why a Human Rights Commission?
123
Secularism and Minority Rights
131
Sanjay Dutt in the First Person
163
Can AntiSecular Parties Govern?
168
Narendra Modis Hindutva Laboratory
173
Whos Afraid of the Law?
186
Mr President the Game was Unequal
190
We the Other People
195
Competent but Uncommitted Judges
204
Reflections on Associational Freedoms and Free Speech
270
CocaCola and the Peoples War Group
318
Veerappan and the Rule of Law
322
The Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee
327
Reflections on a Kidnap
331
In the First Person
338
List of Cases
349
List of Statutes
352
Select Bibliography
354
Index
359
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