Wages of Impunity : Power, Justice and Human Rights
by K. G. Kannabiran.
- New Delhi : Orient Longman, 2004.
- 372 p.
Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The saga of impunity Chapter 2. Justice must be seen to be done Chapter 3. Colonial baggage Chapter 4. Personal liberty after independence Chapter 5. Progressive decay of democratic institutions Chapter 6. The state as terrorist Chapter 7. TADA: more repressive than Rowlatt Chapter 8. Crime and punishment Chapter 9. The weird jurisprudence of a dead act Chapter 10. The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 Chapter 11. A lament for the Constitution Chapter 12. Why a Human Rights Commission? Chapter 13. Granting the freedom to misuse freedom: secularism and minority rights Chapter 14. Sanjay Dutt in the first person Chapter 15. Can anti-secular parties govern? Chapter 16. Narendra Modi's Hinduvta laboratory Chapter 17. Scheduled castes: who's afraid of the law? Chapter 18. Mr. President, the game was unequal Chapter 19. We, the other people Chapter 20. Competent but uncommitted judges Chapter 21. What is wrong with judicial activism? Chapter 22. What shall we do with our judiciary? Chapter 23. A code of conduct for judges Chapter 24. On the selection of judges: an open letter to the Chief Justice of India Chapter 25. Collective action: the Andhra Pradesh lawyer's strike Chapter 26. Governors and politics Chapter 27. Privilege and obligation Chapter 28. Political justice through concerted protest Chapter 29. Defining right as wrong: reflections on associational freedoms and free speech Chapter 30. Coca-cola and the Peoples' War Group Chapter 31. Veerappan and the rule of law Chapter 32. The Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee Chapter 33. Koyyuru: reflections on a kidnap Chapter 34. In the first person List of Cases List of Statutes Select Bibliography Index