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Human Rights in India and the DHFL Scam: Knowing through Negations

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  Human Rights in India and the DHFL Scam: Knowing through Negations Human Rights in India and the DHFL Scam: Knowing through Negations Posted on 4th November, 2024 (GMT 17:21 hrs) ABSTRACT The article highlights the DHFL scam as a case study in India’s human rights landscape, focusing on the misuse of state mechanisms to silence victims and activists. By examining patterns of harassment, it reveals a troubling trend where dissent against financial misconduct meets state repression. The author argues that this tactic of “knowing through negations” helps illuminate power structures at work in stifling justice. Overall, it’s a critique of how human rights violations often intersect with financial scandals in India. I. INTRODUCTION: IDENTIFYING THE ISSUE-AT-HAND (Not) Quite surprisingly enough, we are compelled to write this article. Most of our blog posts, articles and paper-letters are of this nature: written out of certain crisis-points, certain burning issues, certain existential dile