Abstract: Protest is not at all new thing for Poland and polish people. but 2020 made itself a year of protests for Poland. Protests like abortion ban, or LGBTQ+ community rights are happening in full swing in Poland. But if we take a closer look on these protests then it can be seen that these… Continue reading Protests in Poland
Category: Volume XVIII
Social Media as a Medium of Protest
“The only way you beat a machine is with a movement” – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Protesting has always been fundamental to human civilizations and societies. Karl Marx, one of the greatest philosophers of all time has aptly defined this human nature to create disorder to bring about order in his ‘Conflict Theory.’ Patterns of class conflict… Continue reading Social Media as a Medium of Protest
The Big Chill: Surveillance of Protests and Its Chilling Effect
Introduction 2020 has been a year of protests - or perhaps yet another year of protests. From the United States of America, Nigeria, Hong Kong to Poland and India, people have ignored a pandemic to step onto the streets to voice their dissatisfaction and dissent against their governments. It would not be wrong to say… Continue reading The Big Chill: Surveillance of Protests and Its Chilling Effect
OBJECTION YOUR HONOUR! Amit Sahni V Commissioner of Police & Ors
When reasonable restrictions to Article 19 were being debated in Parliament, there was a great worry that the restrictions may dictate, nay overpower the rights themselves. However, Dr. Ambedkar convinced the Constituent Assembly that these rights would ultimately have some restrictions and it was better that the legislature enacted them, rather than leaving it to… Continue reading OBJECTION YOUR HONOUR! Amit Sahni V Commissioner of Police & Ors
Protests, Mob Cultural and Social Morality: Lessons from Jallikattu and Sabarimala incidents
Introduction A vibrant democracy provides its constituents, the medium to voice themselves. A democracy is, thus, reliant on the ideals of its people and their moral conscience. In such a context, democracies, along with enabling dissent and protests, foster mob culture which ride on public sentiments and social morality. Mob culture in-turn results in the… Continue reading Protests, Mob Cultural and Social Morality: Lessons from Jallikattu and Sabarimala incidents
The Legal Regime of Disrupting Dissent
In 2018, a local journalist in Manipur had uploaded a video on the social media site Facebook to express his dissatisfaction and anger at the State government and the Prime Minister. This journalist was booked under Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code i.e. Sedition and was jailed for the social media posts. After being… Continue reading The Legal Regime of Disrupting Dissent
VITAL CONSTIUTIONAL QUESTION: HOW ‘REASONABLY’ ARE PROTESTS REGULATED?
Legal professionals, academicians and members of the civil society are often found saying “Dissent is the foundation of a democracy”. In fact, if we look back, some of the most celebrated, referred to and intellectually enriching jurisprudence of the Constitutional law of our country is recorded as dissenting opinions. A dissent is nothing but a… Continue reading VITAL CONSTIUTIONAL QUESTION: HOW ‘REASONABLY’ ARE PROTESTS REGULATED?
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