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in Analysis Bhima Koregaon Democracy and Rule of Law Fundamental Rights Health Rights Human Rights Judiciary Right to Life

Father, we have Sinned

Rohan DeshpandebyRohan Deshpande
December 6, 2020
in Analysis, Bhima Koregaon, Democracy and Rule of Law, Fundamental Rights, Health Rights, Human Rights, Judiciary, Right to Life
Father, we have Sinned

Father, we have sinned

For you,

The preambular values and Article 21 have been binned.

 

As a society, we take selective outrage

A journalist, yes

Yet, denial of a sipper and straw is not met with enough umbrage.

 

Your case may be under the UAPA, with the NIA prosecuting

I say!

Does that justify such a denuding?

 

Delay defeats justice

Is known to all alike

But for you, the judiciary is cold as ice.

 

A humanitarian request is not entertained

For want of

A reply to your plaint.

 

I am instantly reminded of a picture

Adorning the High Court at Panaji

Depicting a chain around legal scriptures.

With anguish, I propose one addition

Nay, an amendment

Clarifying that in our legal system, there’s no place for your kind of petition.

 

Does no one understand – the only lock that a straw can pick

Is what unshackles

A monster who makes our Constitution and conscience sick.

 

If this is the way we treat our octogenarians,

I ask myself,

Is there any place for my generation?

 

However, be rest assured that your struggle for a sipper and a straw

Will not go down in history,

And equate you to a man of straw.

 

For Father, while we have sinned

In your case,

Only the devil has grinned.

 

(Rohan Deshpande practices as a Counsel in the Bombay High Court and writes on law and current affairs. The views are personal.)

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