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“Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man’s life” Daniel Webster
Over time, this nation has developed a rather peculiar tradition. Whenever politicians are arrested or summoned before the courts, they rally huge crowds, usually armed with bludgeons and stones, and block the main thoroughfares, obstructing the path of emergency services and disrupting traffic as if something momentous has occurred.
Regardless of whether or not they do any actual good for the nation, these public representatives always want to cast themselves as heroes, moving around with great fanfare even if they have been charged with a crime that they might possibly have committed. Having said this, it is the right of their supporters to protest if they think that the State has demonstrated high-handedness but not before exploring and exhausting legal remedies. This can be done by way of gathering peacefully at assigned spots, displaying placards and banner
A matter of replacement
April 22, 2021
Over the years, indeed over the decades, we have lost many good people. We have lost them to the natural process of ageing, we have lost them to accident, we have lost them to sickness and we have lost them to murder. This is not true only of our society. People die everywhere. They are killed, sometimes for the most trivial reasons. The history of many countries is, in this sense, similar.
The question for us is: are we being able to replace the good people who have gone away? Some of them, their pictures still placed on Facebook pages which have not been wiped away, remind us of who they were and what they achieved. For others there are memories that stay on for a very long time. These people of course intended to inspire others to follow in their paths. There are many who choose to take up similar causes in one way or the other, whether it is through writing or through charitable work. But are they enough? The question may be crucial to
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat The passing away of Mr I A Rehman who was also fondly referred as Rehman Saheb, founder of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a truly people's Commission on Human Rights is a big loss for the human rights movement in South Asia in general and Pakistan in particular. His was a…