Social murder and the missing state
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May 07, 2021 01:30 IST
The defence that the government is not responsible for the present crisis has consequences for India’s democracy
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The defence that the government is not responsible for the present crisis has consequences for India’s democracy
When people are placed under conditions which appeal to the brute only, said Friedrich Engels, what remains to them but to rebel or to succumb to utter brutality?
The scenes that are being witnessed in India now are apocalyptic in tone. When a citizen attacks hospital personnel because a life was lost due to the absence of medical care, or a citizen struggles to breathe with an oxygen cylinder on the pavement, it is a crisis at multiple levels.