The Wages of Impunity: Power, Justice, and Human RightsOrient 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. |
Inhalt
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 |
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