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6 Jan, 15 tweets, 5 min read
1) Many problems actually. Start with "no difficulty". For advocates, of necessity one side will fail even if seemingly having "no difficulty". If s/he fails too many times, s/he wont hv clients, and wont need to argue. No such market or otherwise fail-criteria to judge judges.
2) In fact judiciary is so far above critical assessment, that there is a de facto absence of answerability or assessment that is independent of themselves. The only body in a democratic state with power over others without any independent oversight or accountability to the ppl.
3) that "no difficulty" claim becomes even more of a self-certification for judges than for the advocate - whom, it is expected, that at the least market forces will assess whether she/he is really in "no difficulty" or otherwise.
4) while politicians can really stay on in political positions of the state beyond an official retirement age, the factor working in their favour is that they are subject to people's will, and can be removed from power by the people if judged to be in "difficulty".
5) in a democracy, no position that has power over people, but is unaccountable to the people and gets position without getting through the representation process - should be allowed to be indefinite or long in term. It develops an autonomy that subverts the power of the people.
6) limitation of term of those who dont come through the representative process of democracy and remain unaccountable to the ppl ensures that individual preferences, latent leanings that go against the people's interests or desires - don't get to impose themselves for long.
7) on a lighter note, things hv not moved a single bit from 24th May, 1949 - when Constituent Assembly debated, among other things -how "old men" like the members themselves were more energetic and more efficient than "young men". Here follows a few enlightening bits. RK Sidbha
Sidbha continues his inimitable logic:
Anathasayanam Ayiangar thinks by definition "maturity" comes by age alone, young men should not come in the way of "judges" and "do other things" - only "old men" must be chosen (only one member even mentioned women as a possibility - I will leave readers to find that gem)
Nehru is most revealing: his "method", the use of incomparables pretending they are equivalent, for ex Einstein=judge, placing his "experiments" had a similar direct handle on ppl's lives as that of a judge. He was never ashamed of his admiration of the British systems anyway:
Nehru is aware of the incomparables he is smoothly passing off as equivalent: where he shrewdly acknowledges formal possibility of accountability and removal by people for "old men" politicians themselves, but glosses over the fact that ppl will hv no such power on the judges:
Now follows the naysayers: Jaspat Kapoor is not convinced by the "raise", and in contrast to the others going gaga over British patriarchs, or US or Canadian lords, interestingly invokes the very Hindu concept of ashrams or stages of life:
while commenting on the desire for "raise", Satish Chandra acidly remarks on the "highest" - among countries - minimum age bar for membership of legislature, giving a sense of almost visceral distrust, envy or exclusion of "youth" from power,
Vishwanath Das counters the earlier logic of financial reasons given by pro-"raise" grp, by using their own repeated claims of the candidates being at peak performance and highest levels of earning - he also goes for the "Hindu" concept of Vanaprastha/Sannyas :
finally, it wd be an injustice to constituent assembly members not to cite B.Das - as contradiction to the much tomtom'd claim of constituent assembly debates supporting an implicit faith in the infallibility or suitability of judges. Not everyone shared in the adulation.

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6 Jan
On a lighter view on the retirement, in light of CA debates, '49 on how "old men" wr the most sagacious/mature/foresighted: Had Nehru retired at 60, he wd hv done the CA, but not confirmed Tibet to CPC or gone to Bandung lobbying for Maoist China, and not be there in '62.
Had MK Gandhi retired at 60, he wd have started the career of Jawarlal, but that would be it. I think it would be an interesting exercise for alt hist buffs to fill out the scenarios.
The point is that there can be serious skewering of course for a nation and ppl if individuals persist in power who get fixated on apparatus of personal power, and in turn get fixed in applying tools s/he initially succeeded with - but that no longer is the best for the ppl.
Read 5 tweets
6 Jan
1) Every year I fret and fume in private abt my undergrad maths students previous years "algebra" prep which basically thwarts what I need to get them to do. But I think its precisely the "engagement/application/utility" route Gates is advocating that has worsened the situation.
2) Forcing the mind to think abstractly right from the beginning, through the algebraic structures - opens up the simple relationships between the structures and their properties - which "examples" route diverts frm and blocks developing the ability to think abstractly.
3) what I see is a dumb "AI" style pattern matching from "examples/applications" and not the simpler and more direct abstract thinking. If the "examples" dont match the issue at hand, "nearest neighbour" need not help - as the thinking needed to use it is not there.
Read 6 tweets
3 Jan
Criminals r tried where they commit crime regardless of claimed "original" citizenship. Any such ISIS cuties shd face Iraqi justice, not the politically correct Indian one which might apply 'selective protection at all costs' principle to say bacchi bigar gayi, prem se chhor do.
In case the infamous German or Belgian examples are cited: I am aware of European legal foxtrot to force govs to repatriate Europe's own ISIS cutie pies to protect them. Side effect, hubby of German ISIS cutie got away with jail term in Germany, not torn limb from limb in Iraq.
That cute ISIS hubby of cutie ISIS pie German woman, bought a slave and her child from khalifa approved slave market, and chained the child in the sun until she died from dehydration in front of her mother.
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26 Dec 21
1) There is a grave risk when a text becomes a wishing mirror where we search for and find reinforcement of thoughts we were already leaning towards, perhaps without being aware of it. artofmanliness.com/character/advi…
2) the first flaw is the destruction or erasure of the context of the text itself: who created it for whom, when, and for what. When the Gita is picked apart for pieces that seem to strike a "solution" for our "problems", the context of the war in which it originated -gets lost.
3) even if it is suspected that there were accretions to the original composition, over time - all of those layers, both the presumed core and accretion, all tell a story and a view thats comprehensive - and is intimately connected to how the "Hindu" has traveled over the ages.
Read 7 tweets
24 Dec 21
1) Interestingly, historically - west or middle European attacks on Russia were perhaps more numerous than the Russian attacks on the west. European narrative of a permanent victimhood is a complex military political expansionist mindset that covers a whole slew of faultlines.
2) East Europe faced its most brutal attacks not from Russia, but from murderous Steppe hordes, Mongols and Turks, Teutonic knights crusaders (yes they put their tails between rumps after a century in the Levant but had their pleasure on Poles, Lithuanians, assorted Germanics)
3) Europe mounted at least four major campaigns against Russia over the last two centuries, one of which was formally on securing of protection of orthodox communities under Islamist Ottoman empire - when Christian France and UK joined hands with Muslim Ottomans against Russia.
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15 Dec 21
Just a reaffirmation that after the Brits, Americans hv been the greatest facilitators, and whitewashers of jihadi sadism on non-Christian non-Muslims - a brilliant proxy to express religious and racist hatred of those the they consider as religious and racially Untermenschen.
Every campaign against "Islamophobia" is aimed at silencing those who criticize both the history and ongoing reality of jihadi atrocity on non-Muslims, as well as preventing the stories of victims of jihad from coming out and alerting the non-Muslim to take preventive measures.
There is a European problem, led by British colonial construction of colour based race identity - which becoming politically incorrect takes the cover of anti-Muslim wherever feasible within Europe. But that Euro racism is directed at anything that's visually different.
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