Police terror and the theatre of law
By, Rajeev Bhargava is Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi
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* The murder of Jayaraj and Benicks at the hands of the local police in Sattankulam, Tamil Nadu has provoked national outrage. The bare bones of the incident are widely known. A small shopkeeper is picked up for a trivial offence, taken to the local police station. His son too is detained. Both are mercilessly thrashed. The hospital to which they are
The urban migrant and the ‘ritual’ tug of home
By, Dipankar Gupta is Retired Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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This article is important purely for Mains GS Paper 1-Social issues. It is also very important for Sociology Optional students. It talks about the sociological reasons for reverse migration of the workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The reverse migration of the migrant workers to their villages in not because their family