India Resists

What is important is that the 200-word profile of Ocalan in Time is by Gerry Adams, President of Sinn Fein, a party historically linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Adams establishes the relevance of that fact at the outset: “The Irish peace accord known as the Good Friday Agreement is 15 years old this month. For almost all that time, Abdullah Ocalan, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, has been in prison in Turkey.”

Did Afzal Guru’s hanging satisfy the collective conscience of the nation?

One had always heard perjorative remarks about politics and morality being distant neighbors, notwithstanding the life long struggle by Gandhiji to have some kind of connect between these.

There is a staggering incoherence between death penalty and the very raison d’être of punishment mechanism in a civilised society. Besides the metaphysical question on the collective’s authority over individual’s right to life, the logic of capital punishment can be contested from a purely unromantic point of view, by weighing up what such a measure eventually accomplishes.

Assuming that you’re accurately quoted – and it is mostly likely you have been as another newspaper has also done so while spelling your name differently, it is good to know that you have been checking the health of the four convicts regularly.

Resolutions adopted at the Meeting on Capital Punishment and the State of Indian Democracy

Gandhi’s country must set an example by abolishing capital punishment, says Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer

While the anguish of the victims needs to be understood with absolute empathy, it is also important to realise that at a deeper level capital punishment reveals a sense of defeat—a temper of pessimism.

The sudden haste with which it carried out Ajmal Kasab’s hanging in a similar manner late last year, the sudden whip up of nationalistic chauvinism along the LOC last month, or even the big bang neo-liberal reforms in the last period all point out that Congress is clearly trying to go on the offensive come what may.

I know you love death, but you know I love you as death is after life and love is between both of it. I know the passion of power to be an author, author of other’s death. I know you love exactness, precision, and accuracy even in life and even for death.