CHETAN BHAGAT, OTHER INTELLECTS SUPPORT MASS KILLINGS? The - TopicsExpress



          

CHETAN BHAGAT, OTHER INTELLECTS SUPPORT MASS KILLINGS? The support of the intellectuals provides a veneer of respectability and cloak of legitimacy to something that is a crude assault on civil liberties, and by extension, on the idea of democracy. It also militates against the concepts of justice and fairness. The spirited defence of the killings by intellectuals reveal an emerging conflict between the formal justice system created by the Indian Constitution and the justice system favoured by the crowd. The first one is a civilised, commonly agreed upon approach to crime while the other is a barbaric, retribution-hungry response — more like the Khap panchayats in northern India.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:56:29 +0000

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