Praveen Dixit

India’s laws and policing must finally shed their colonial skin and learn to govern by consent rather than coercion. India’s legal and policing architecture still carries the unmistakable imprint of the Raj. Its instincts are adversarial, its reflexes coercive, and its imagination confined to order rather than justice. That gap between authority and legitimacy is not merely administrative but philosophical, and it urgently needs repair. Let us turn to statecraft as explained in the  Valmiki...

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When extremism moves from the jungle to the city, the laws of engagement must evolve too. On 12 September 2004, two Maoist groups - the...