Crimes Uncounted: When Data Becomes the State’s Defence
A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control.
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A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control.
TM Krishna recently performed an exclusive musical tribute to the memory of the innocents killed in the anti-Muslim Gujarat genocide of 2002. Here, he talks about how the music was curated and how it has an even bigger role to play now when there is communal tension, and open calls are given for genocide.
The law enacted in 1958 aimed at controlling insurgency and cross border militancy, but successive governments at the Centre have been reluctant to withdraw it even after peace is restored. In wake of the Nagaland killings, this article explores how AFSPA gives unbridled power to the armed forces.
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