Editor: I. Mallikarjuna Sharma Volume 11: 15-31 March 2015 No. 5-6
Martyrs memorial special issue of 15-31 March 2015 paying tributes to Bhagat Singh and other comrades.
Martyrs memorial special issue of 15-31 March 2015 paying tributes to Bhagat Singh and other comrades.
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(20<strong>15</strong>) 1 LAW Martyrs Memorial Special issue Annual Subscription: Rs. 1200/-<br />
RNI <strong>No</strong>. APENG/2005/18975 : ISSN 2277 - 8829<br />
A world law fortnightly published from Hyderabad, India.<br />
<strong>Editor</strong>: I. <strong>Mallikarjuna</strong> <strong>Sharma</strong><br />
ADVISORS: B.P. Jeevan Reddy (Former Judge, Supreme Court of India),<br />
R.V.R. Chandrasekhara Rao (Politics Professor), K. Subba Rao (Senior Advocate, Bangalore),<br />
Umesh Chandra (Senior Advocate, Lucknow), Ravi Kiran Jain (Senior Advocate, Allahabad),<br />
Sagar Dhara (Engineer, Hyderabad), Dr. Koenraad Elst (Indologist, Belgium).<br />
<strong>Volume</strong> <strong>11</strong>: Part 1 <strong>15</strong>-<strong>31</strong> <strong>March</strong> 20<strong>15</strong> <strong>No</strong>. 5-6<br />
C O N T E N T S<br />
1. Wishing and waiting for a<br />
New Dawn 3<br />
2. Paruchuri Hanumantha Rao<br />
I.M. <strong>Sharma</strong> 5-10<br />
3. A Historical View of Law,<br />
V.V. Reddy <strong>11</strong>-16<br />
4. The Zeitgeist Movement:<br />
A new train of thought (21) 17-24<br />
5. Autobiography of Martyr<br />
Ramprasad Bismil (1) 25-28<br />
6. Charlie Hebdo: Thinking<br />
New, Rethinking the Old<br />
Rousset Pierre 29-39<br />
7. They are one of us<br />
(l’Humanité editorial) 40<br />
8. Policing Belief: Impact of<br />
Blasphemy Laws on<br />
Human Rights (3) 41-44<br />
9. Historical inevitability or 45-<br />
Electoral corruption?(24) [IMS] 46<br />
10. Shreya Singhal v. Union of<br />
India [IND-SC] [S 66A IT Act] 47-86<br />
<strong>11</strong>. Quake Outcasts v. Minister<br />
for Canterbury Earthquake<br />
Recovery [NZ-SC] (1) 87-142<br />
12. Disengage with Pakistan<br />
completely! (Tarek Fatah) 143-144<br />
13. Legendary Hockey Player<br />
Major Dhyan Chand 145-146<br />
14. Poems, Ashfaq & Bismil 148<br />
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WISHING & WAITING FOR A NEW DAWN<br />
That is what many of us have been doing ever since independence,<br />
especially since the turbulent sixties. This new dawn symbolism could be<br />
interpreted in two ways. One would be to see the entire decades since the<br />
‘transfer of power’ as a long dark night belying the aims and aspirations<br />
of innumerable martyrs of our freedom struggle and leaving but travails<br />
and tears for the people – still waiting for a new dawn that could bring in<br />
the much needed libertarian, welfarist sunlight. Another way of looking<br />
at could be that several dawns have come and gone by ever since but that<br />
we fondly dreamt of has eluded us so far. One set of rulers has come and<br />
gone, giving way to another, which meant not much in practical terms.<br />
Mannerisms and wordings may have changed, even radical democratic<br />
ethos oriented ideologies, laws and schemes might have come up, but yet<br />
real progress has not been made. A simple illustration would be of the<br />
so-called ‘radical and innovative’ Right to Information Act. Some good<br />
might have come about due to it in some places and times, but also many<br />
loopholes there for the authorities to avoid giving the needed information<br />
and make the process more costly and cumbersome for the people.<br />
Perhaps the good old method of petitioning to the public authorities, if<br />
buttressed by strong and quick judicial monitoring, could be more<br />
handy, inexpensive and beneficial to the people at large. Also we see the<br />
power and aura of mammon overwhelming almost all sections of society<br />
like a Macbethian tormenting spirit. The present get-rich-quick-by-anymeans<br />
trend is spelling doom to all the grand dreams of a glorious<br />
egalitarian society based on the mutual aid of a basically good-natured,<br />
well meaning citizenry. We see the basic needs of common people starkly<br />
neglected and the remedial mechanisms including courts reduced to<br />
more and more sloth and inefficiency. The new surge of free market<br />
economy generating an atmosphere of extreme alienation and misery<br />
among the people is ruining all chances of humane social progress. The<br />
only remedy is for the executive and judiciary, with the motto – small is<br />
beautiful and simple is workable – to feel and act as real public servants<br />
and not like lords divine/secular. Only when they begin to use public<br />
transport, live in duly alloted quarters and conduct on-the-spot enquiries<br />
often instead of closing their eyes and ears to the pleas of the common<br />
man, in a word return to the practice of ‘high thinking and plain living’,<br />
can they even think of rooting out the societal ills and it is the duty and<br />
task of we the people to make for such an eventuality by our concerted<br />
efforts and agitations, and usher in the fresh sunrise. ♣♣♣<br />
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