Lokesh Bag The Supreme Court of India, in its review judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, delivered a verdict on August 1, 2024 allowing states the authority to sub-classify reserved category groups, such as Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), for the purpose of reservations. This judgment has sparked widespread debate, especially …
Not Delayed, But Denied: A Case of Compromised Justice and Protection
Samyak Tirri Social Exclusion by Caste in terms of Justice and Protection The prominent legal Maxim reads “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied”, but in the case of Tsundur the justice and protection both are denied directly which left eight deaths unanswered. This is a note of social exclusion which highlights the prevalence of justice and …
Request to Supreme Court: Please don’t issue 41-A CRPC notice to the accused for the offences under SC ST POA
To, THE HON’BLE CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA, SUPREME COURT OF INDIA TILAK MARG, NEW DELHI-110001 EMAIL – supremecourt@nic.in Subject: Request to Direct the Home Ministries/ Police Department of the State governments, High Courts and District Judiciary not to issue or entertain the applications for giving 41-A CRPC notice for the offences under the section of …
Challenging the notion of ‘Survival of the fittest’: Significance of Babasaheb’s argument in our times
Dr. SPVA Sairam Natural historians fought among themselves as to ‘how’ organisms or species tend to survive in the ‘struggle for existence’, because the resources are always limited and the environment is mostly dynamic. For Darwin, it is mostly by violent means that organisms tend to outlive others; for Kropotkin, it is mostly about co-operation. …
Ethnocracy invading Babasaheb’s democracy: World Inequality Report-2022
Dr. Anuradha Bele & Dr. Jas Simran Kehal Dr Ambedkar gave us a legacy of political democracy but at the same time entrusted us with the responsibility of demolishing the graded socio-economic inequality to establish the principle of one man one value. Perhaps, we failed him as well as ourselves. The resultant nation is …
The revival of ‘public conscience’
Dr. Bhushan Amol Darkase The survival of Indian democracy depends on the revival of ‘public conscience’ which Dr. Ambedkar explained as, ‘Conscience which becomes agitated at every wrong, no matter who is the sufferer, and it means that everybody, whether he suffers that particular wrong or not, is prepared to join him in order to …
On ‘Jai Bhim’: How can individuals be seen as beacons of hope?
Anshul Kumar “The assertion by the individual of his own opinions and beliefs, his own independence and interest as over against group standards, group authority and group interests is the beginning of all reform. But whether the reform will continue depends upon what scope the group affords for such individual assertion. If the group is tolerant and …
Caste and Climate Justice
Uday Kukde Many international environmental and climate change organisations like The Climate Reality Project, Greenpeace, Fridays for Future, WWF are doing a good job by raising the issue of climate justice. Climate Justice is one of the main issues we should talk about while advocating the climate change movement. These organisations also work through …
Phoolan Devi: A revolutionary, a politician and a Buddhist
Ritesh Today 10th August, is the birth anniversary of of the queen of justice– Phoolan Devi. Let’s today remember her with unpopular facts of her life’s journey. At the age of 31, in 1994, Phoolan Devi was released from jail after spending a decade without any trial. After a traumatizing childhood & a terrible …