Wilfred D'Costa posted in Binayak Sen Solidarity Forum.<http://www.facebook.com/n/?home.php&sk=group_180156178670678&id=188926641126965&mid=3abace9G614bab3bG1f2e0c3G96&bcode=J4t25&n_m=mustafadesam%40gmail.com> [image: DANGEROUS MISSION - India’s growth rate cannot be made a national objective Prabhat Patnaik While there will be general agreement that the judgment in Binayak Sen’s case represents a gross miscarriage of justice, most people will attribute it to the overzealousness of a lower judicial functionary, or, at the most, to the prevailing atmosphere in the state of Chhattisgarh. If the trial had been held elsewhere, they would argue, Sen would not have got the verdict he did. They are probably right, just as those who attribute the bringing of sedition charges against Arundhati Roy and Syed Ali Shah Geelani to the overzealousness of the Delhi police, and against Sudhir Dhawale to the overzealousness of the Maharashtra police, may well be right. But such overzealousness, instances of which are multiplying alarmingly, thrives within, and derives sustenance from, a certain ambience. This consists of the increasing tendency, under the current neo-liberal dispensation, to see any basic ideological opposition to the parameters of official policy as anti-national. The tendency, in short, is to criminalize ideological dissent. Of course, one must not cry wolf, but one must not ignore this tendency either. To do so will be fatal....................................]<http://www.facebook.com/n/?profile.php&id=729908244&mid=3abace9G614bab3bG1f2e0c3G96&bcode=J4t25&n_m=mustafadesam%40gmail.com>Wilfred D'Costa<http://www.facebook.com/n/?profile.php&id=729908244&mid=3abace9G614bab3bG1f2e0c3G96&bcode=J4t25&n_m=mustafadesam%40gmail.com>11:17pm Jan 27 DANGEROUS MISSION - India’s growth rate cannot be made a national objective Prabhat Patnaik While there will be general agreement that the judgment in Binayak Sen’s case represents a gross miscarriage of justice, most people will attribute it to the overzealousness of a lower judicial functionary, or, at the most, to the prevailing atmosphere in the state of Chhattisgarh. If the trial had been held elsewhere, they would argue, Sen would not have got the verdict he did. They are probably right, just as those who attribute the bringing of sedition charges against Arundhati Roy and Syed Ali Shah Geelani to the overzealousness of the Delhi police, and against Sudhir Dhawale to the overzealousness of the Maharashtra police, may well be right. But such overzealousness, instances of which are multiplying alarmingly, thrives within, and derives sustenance from, a certain ambience. This consists of the increasing tendency, under the current neo-liberal dispensation, to see any basic ideological opposition to the parameters of official policy as anti-national. The tendency, in short, is to criminalize ideological dissent. Of course, one must not cry wolf, but one must not ignore this tendency either. To do so will be fatal.................................... The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Opinion | Dangerous mission<http://www.facebook.com/l/2b30ceww8Sw4GQKDsNhBnyDVVaA;www.telegraphindia.com/1110113/jsp/opinion/story_13431466.jsp> www.telegraphindia.com<http://www.facebook.com/l/2b30cW_0M3qJ9O9zESvSoEVH0xg;www.telegraphindia.com/1110113/jsp/opinion/story_13431466.jsp> The Telegraph on the Web: Daily international, national international news, daily newspaper, national, politics, science, business, sports, weather, editorial, Op-Ed, calcutta local news, northeast news, jharkhand, jamshedpur, newspaper archives
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