‘Every institution in India has failed in the past half century – from judiciary to the executive, to the legislature.’ This line, coming from one of India’s most well-known Senior Advocates and current President of the Supreme Court Bar association of India, Dushyant Dave, is a line that will haunt Indians for the coming many years.
Dushyant Dave spoke about Accountability and Human Rights in India at the London School of Economics and Political Science in October 2015, and he sadly noted that crimes against women, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and minorities are steadily on the rise in the world’s largest democracy. When on one hand a man is murdered in Dadri for possessing beef, on the other hand, Dalit children are being burnt to death. Survivors of the 1984 Sikh riots are yet to get justice, Kashmiri Pandits are yet to be rehabilitated. Despite all these gross human rights violations, he says that the Judiciary itself is failing the country by letting criminals walk free without a trial in cases like the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
Dave also goes on to add that these gross human rights violations are the truth about India. He also adds that Prime Minister Modi is trying to present a different image of the country, which he feels ignores these violations. For him, ‘India is under a siege’ by right wing groups and all attempts are being made to scare the minorities into systematic suppression.
Hear the podcast of his speech here:
Srinivas
Very clever clubbing of all atrocities against minorities since Independence and attribute it to Modi Sarkar. Leftist
techniques at their best display these days!
Poonam Das
Sir,
She is not trying to club all the atrocities and blaming the PM. All she is saying that even the PM who we all elected unanimously because he promised he will show us ache din. Till now no ache din has come. I know its just one year, but it also true that being a leader he is ignoring the problem that affects the poor and minority. He is only bringing ache din to the already uplifted and who can afford ache din.
Srinivas
There is no magic wand to wave away the misery brought forth by sixty years of misrule.
He is doing what he thinks are the priorities that would help by doing first. Till then bitch away in
true leftist good for nothing style.
Srinivas
Some how every bit and piece that emerges from this portal is about the dooms day brought forth
by Modi, or how he has “utterly failed”. Some how the world outside, quite big and large hearted
enough to recognize greatness where they see it, see rosy things for India. Thank goodness,
they are not dark hearted like the Commies on this editorial. Are you guys being funded by
that National Herald owner “Young Indian”?