This is a very powerful, and bleak, argument by @pbmehta on the widespread failure of India’s liberal institutions to protect #humanrights in India. As @TheEconomist did last week, the Supreme Ct comes in for very particular disdain for abdicating responsibility. #Kashmir
“So we don’t yet have a contest between democracy and authoritarianism. What we have are protests against individual transgressions — sedition, lynching, NRC, Kashmir. These are still seen as individual transgressions in a system that is still, overall, legitimate. “
“After all, if we still have the luxury of acting as if the system is legitimate, the system will hoist us with our own petard of legitimacy.”
A powerful must read about the state of Modi’s India, both the broad silence & the nature of the struggle to protect rights, one by one.
A powerful must read about the state of Modi’s India, both the broad silence & the nature of the struggle to protect rights, one by one.
