Comments on: By Crook or by Crook: A Response to “Swami and Friends c.2011″ http://www.criticaltwenties.in/nationalpolitics/by-crook-or-by-crook-a-response-to-swami-and-friends-c-2011 Powered by Webshore Thu, 02 Apr 2015 16:34:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sarah Iqbal http://www.criticaltwenties.in/nationalpolitics/by-crook-or-by-crook-a-response-to-swami-and-friends-c-2011#comment-7296 Sarah Iqbal Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:29:15 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=3270#comment-7296 Nice one, agree completely with the last bit of the article. Police action at midnight baffles and disgusts me too, I would only believe their presence at midnight was justified (minus the lathi charge and tear gas shelling) if those rumours about a fire in the pandal at 3 am were true. Nice one, agree completely with the last bit of the article. Police action at midnight baffles and disgusts me too, I would only believe their presence at midnight was justified (minus the lathi charge and tear gas shelling) if those rumours about a fire in the pandal at 3 am were true.

]]> By: Gayatri Kumar http://www.criticaltwenties.in/nationalpolitics/by-crook-or-by-crook-a-response-to-swami-and-friends-c-2011#comment-7275 Gayatri Kumar Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:04:48 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=3270#comment-7275 Though the central argument of the article is commended, I have a few doubts. 1) What makes you say that the police action was unconstitutional? I would argue it satisfied every rule/regulation and law under the Indian law to disperse an unlawful assembly. 2) What evidence is there to confirm that the injuries to the persons mentioned were by the lathis and not because of the stampede caused by the excess number of people that had turned up (against the permission for 5000 persons)? I would like to qualify - I'm not a Congress or BJP supporter. I support law (irrespective of whichever party is in government) that would serve the society best, that would rid it of communalism and corruption. Basically. Finally, civil society, as such (inclusive of every citizen), has always been divided. It was never unified. It is unified in its goals but not in its motives. (Anna Hazare cf. Ramdev) Though the central argument of the article is commended, I have a few doubts.

1) What makes you say that the police action was unconstitutional? I would argue it satisfied every rule/regulation and law under the Indian law to disperse an unlawful assembly.

2) What evidence is there to confirm that the injuries to the persons mentioned were by the lathis and not because of the stampede caused by the excess number of people that had turned up (against the permission for 5000 persons)?

I would like to qualify – I’m not a Congress or BJP supporter. I support law (irrespective of whichever party is in government) that would serve the society best, that would rid it of communalism and corruption. Basically.

Finally, civil society, as such (inclusive of every citizen), has always been divided. It was never unified. It is unified in its goals but not in its motives. (Anna Hazare cf. Ramdev)

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