On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote: > What with the Kapil Sibal brouhaha, I thought I'd better find out more > about what rights I actually have.
What rights do you actually have? How about none? One doesn't even have the right to end up along with 6000 other Kashmiris in an unmarked grave. Let's be clear about one thing here, India isn't a shining democracy. Far from it. Most Indian states on their own would be declared fascist regimes overnight [0]. I find it funny that the Indian intelligentsia get their panties in a bunch because of some silly comments by a minister who should know better, and yet mass graves, genocide, mass oppression and warfare on its people go for the most part uncommented. Misplaced priorities: the newspapers of the world will rant incessant about the merits of letting Walmart & co into India, and only make silent noises about the lack of Police reform, even when ordered by the Supreme court. How many times has the police reform issue been mooted and vetoed? The lack of attention is not accidental, it is deliberate intellectual dishonesty. What about the reforms to the constitution? Does anyone even bring up the Sarkaria commission in the polite company of politicians these days? [0] I am not given to hyperbole, I can make a rather strong case for quite a few large Indian states.
