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 The Legitimation Crises of the Indian Judiciary: A Failing State of Affairs? The Legitimation Crises of the Indian Judiciary: A Failing State of Affairs? Posted on 03/02/2024 (GMT 16:29 hrs) This Post is Dedicated to Bilkis Bano, whose struggle for ensuring justice still continues Artwork: Rajib Chowdhury and Umar Khalid, who is the voice of dissent representative of the dawning of an age free from all exploitation… Artwork: Rajib Chowdhury Is the Indian Judiciary in jeopardy like all the other three pillars of Indian Democracy? Is it facing what Habermas called a legitimation crisis, whereby the effective manifestation of the normative provisions that provide the foundational core to an institution are somehow undermined, ignored, put into oblivion and so on. We already came to know a few years back the following: Here’s proof that poor get gallows, rich mostly escape.   VIEW HERE   ⤡  (As reported on JULY 21, 2015 © The Times on India)  Judiciary ramshackled, going to court is usele

  The Case of DHFL Scam: Who Will Bell the Cat? The Case of DHFL Scam: Who Will Bell the Cat? Posted on 26/01/2024 (GMT 08:45 hrs) After consummating the tiresome tasks of scrutinizing, surveying, data-mining, filing numerous RTIs, viralizing petitions-posters-reels-live videos-making docu movies, writing in both e-mail and snail mail all the gatekeepers of legal justice, it is found that the DHFL FD and NCD holders are in a safe place. However, the point is, who will bell the cat after  smelling the rats⤡  in the: a) The current ruling party’s role in the DHFL scam via terror-funding/political charity/political donation ‘False’ (?!) allegations on the collusion among the BJP, Dawood-Mirchi and the DHFL: A Letter to the BJP President VIEW HERE ⤡ AN RTI ON THE ALLEGED COLLUSION AMONG DAWOOD-MIRCHI-RKW-DHFL-BJP VIEW HERE ⤡ VIEW THE FULL POST HERE:  https://onceinabluemoon2021.in/2024/01/26/the-case-of-dhfl-scam-who-will-bell-the-cat/

 The Weapon of Syncretism: Lest We Forget… … Posted on 22/01/2024 (GMT 18:00 hrs) “The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.” “The weapon of criticism”, in the case of the present dreary Indian context, is supplied by the syncretic heritage of the formation of the idea of India, which is different from being a mere geo-political construct, a mere outcome of the 200 years of colonial rule. Such an idea encompasses the unique nature of the South-East Asian subcontinent, which consists in the spirit of heterogeneous diffusion and mutuality of tolerant exchange. It does not call for a reign of communal/religious terror or violence. It talks of art, creativity, architecture, music, dance, drama, social cohesion, intellectual exchanges and so on. It takes “dharma” not as a tool for effecting divide, but one that is a form of cre

 Values of Indian Constitution Endangered: Heading Towards Hindu Rastra? Values of Indian Constitution Endangered: Heading Towards Hindu Rastra? Posted on 27/01/2024 (GMT 08:50 hrs) Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. He who laughs Has not yet heard The terrible tidings. Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice! And he who walks calmly across the street, Is he not out of reach of his friends In trouble? It is true: I earn my living But, believe me, it is only an accident. Nothing that I do entitles me to eat my fill. By chance I was spared. (If my luck leaves me I am lost.) They tell me: eat and drink. Be glad you have it! But how can I eat and drink When my food is snatched from the hungry And my glass of water belongs to the thirsty? And yet I eat and drink. I would gladly be wise. The old books tell us what wisdom is: Avoid the strife of the world