In 1945, 51 States met in San Francisco and created the United Nations (UN), replacing the League of Nations, which in the 1930s proved unable to stop several acts of aggression that ultimately led to the catastrophic World War II. The expectation was that the UN would deliver peace, with its empowered Security Council, an organ authorised to adopt economic sanctions and, if
The Chief Justice of India N V Ramana and the Supreme Court have offered a wake-up call to the nation on the issue of undertrials languishing in jails, bringing attention to an issue that has diminished our democracy, robbed ordinary citizens of liberty, and embedded a system where jail rather than bail has become the routine in most investigations.
One can argue that hypocrisy is a form of adaptation. It is a survival tool. Didn’t Darwin say something about adapting in his book On the Origin of Species? But what is a natural phenomenon, has major ramifications for humans when it is practised. Christ called it out in John 8:7, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her”. Lord Rama refused to
“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.” Thomas Jefferson.
For the last few weeks, violent protests marked by arson and wilful destruction of railway property have been in the news. What was more shocking was that the protesters, assumed to be keen to join the Indian military services, resorted to violent means in registering their protest against a newly-proposed recruitment process into the very services they seek to serve, the