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| India-Pakistan |
| Our deceitful progressives |
| 2008-04-11 |
| By Saradindu Mukherji Does anybody remember Pandit Tika Lal Taploo, who was assassinated on September 14, 1989, in Srinagar? Not many! That marked the beginning of the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from their homeland. Did his family get justice? Similarly, justice has eluded the relatives of Taranath Sen, murdered in Bangladesh on December 15, 2007, for protesting the take-over of a Hindu cremation ground by local Muslims. At another level, the much talked and written about judgement in the Bilkis Bano case is an occasion to reaffirm our trust in the capacity of the Indian system to mete out condign punishment to the guilty and restore peoples' faith and trust in our investigative agencies. But is our system conditioned by the exigencies of the political culture? |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #3 "Decietful Progressives" Are there any other kind? |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-04-11 08:29 |
| #2 Even before Raja Rammohun Roy, the Cornwallis Code (1793) was the first conscious attempt in modern times to de-communalise the state and a bold step to establish the rule of law in India Yep... the same Cornwallis who surrendered at Yorktown |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-04-11 06:35 |
| #1 I wish we had history professors like this in our universities. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-04-11 00:50 |