The Indian Criminal Justice System Was A

My Job Is To Lay It Out Clearly, Not To Give My Policy Prescriptions.very Little Journalism Is World Changing. But If Change Is To Happen, It Will Be Because People With Power Have A Better Sense Of What’s Happening To People Who Have None.

There's Some Way In Which We Would Prefer Not To See Very Clearly The Immense Gifts And Intelligence Of Some Of The People Who Live In Our Most Abject Conditions. Maybe There Are Some Things At Work In Deciding Who Gets To Be Society's Winners And Who Gets To Be Society's Losers That Don't Have To Do With Merit.

One Chronicler Writes Of An Area Of India During The End Of The 20th Century: Almost No-one In This Slum Was Poor By Indian Benchmarks. ... True, A Few Residents Trapped Rats And Frogs And Fried Them For Dinner. A Few Ate The Scrub Grass At The Sewage Lake Edge. And These Individuals, Miserable Souls, Thereby Made An Inestimable Contribution To Their Neighbors. They Gave Those Slum Dwellers Who Didn't Fry Rats And Eat Weeds A Sense Of Their Upward Mobility.

.. Becoming Attached To A Country Involves Pressing, Uncomfortable Questions About Justice And Opportunity For Its Least Powerful Citizens.

I'm Useless When I Meet Writers I Love - I Go Slack-jawed And Stupid With Awe.