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Is This The Price For This Development?

Justice delayed is justice denied, goes the saying. But the Indian law minister, Veerappa Moily, while reacting to the June 7 judgment of a Bhopal court on the gas tragedy coined a new term “Justice Buried.” It is easy to announce and even pay hefty compensation and apologize 20 or 25 years later, but really tough to fight the real cancer plaguing the society or country––be it in the form of poisonous gas or the virus of communalism. We still have no plan to check the Bhopals and now even Chernobyls in the making. After all this is the price we pay for the development? Isn’t it? Continue reading

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Relief For Gujarat Riot Victims, Justice Still Eludes

Compensation package from the Indian government is not justice, just relief. Continue reading

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