Mobocracy

Mob lynching isn't a mere law and order problem; it's a public spectacle with its roots in religion and politics

Lynching ceases to be a transgression or a lapse in the law but the climax of a particular configuration of politics.

Right mob vs wrong: Amid lynching trend, praise for lawyers beating Chennai rape accused worry for judiciary

The day the Supreme Court called for a law against lynching, lawyers in Chennai beat up 17 men for raping an 11-year-old girl in her apartment complex since January.

SC tells Parliament to draft new law on mob lynching, condemns 'mobocracy': Highlights from judgment

The Supreme Court bench passed a slew of directions to provide "preventive, remedial and punitive measures" to deal with offences like mob violence and cow vigilantism.

Asaduddin Owaisi's offer to provide legal aid doesn't make him anti-national

Asaduddin Owaisi is not an anti-national, anyone who undermines the ideal that every citizen has an equal and inalienable right to justice is anti-national.

AAP vs BJP: Can Kejriwal make Modi's strength his weakness?

In an election season that promises many more AAP-BJP confrontations, defeat belongs to the man who throws the first punch. This is one game of chicken Modi cannot win by playing the strongman.

AAP failed badly in governance, says Congress MP Milind Deora

In an interview to Firstpost, Mumbai South Lok Sabha MP and Minister of State in the UPA government talks about the spectrum auction, about AAP's disappointing stint at governance and about the mobocracy India is turning into.

Lesson for AAP, Kejriwal: Why people power leads to mobocracy

In our hierarchical society where in a large measure we have failed to create the idea of a citizen, the devolution of all powers to a small number of people is dangerous and will not work.