Weekend Reads “How does [India] stay true to its greatest strength, its political identity as a liberal, pluralistic democracy?” asks Pra...
Weekend Reads
- “How does [India] stay true to its greatest strength, its political identity as a liberal, pluralistic democracy?” asks Pratap Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express. “How did India, in its quest for global prestige, manage to lose its own neighbourhood? Our major vulnerabilities are all at home, and so are the solutions.”
- Manu Sebastian on LiveLaw raises crucial questions about the magistrate in the horrific Jayaraj-Bennix custodial death case in Tamil Nadu.
- Megha Kaveri on The Newsminute puts together a timeline of the events leading up to the Jayaraj-Bennix custodial death and the unanswered questions that emerge from it.
- Arun Janardhanan in the Indian Express also offers some context to the case, in which police were taking revenge on Jayaraj for allegedly making critical remarks about a police patrol team demanding shopkeepers should shut down early for lockdown.
- “In violation of the law, the constitutional right to fair trial and a landmark 40-year-old Supreme-Court decision, Indian trial courts impose death sentences based on brutality of crimes, without considering individual circumstance, reform or suitability of life imprisonment,” writes Neetika Vishwanath on Article 14. “These are the findings of analysis of all capital punishments pronounced by trial courts in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra over a 16-year period.”
- After turning their backs on migrants during the lockdown, Ajeet Mahale and KV Aditya Bharadwaj in the Hindu write about how...
