The wages of impunity : power, justice, and human rights / K.G. Kannabiran.

The saga of impunity -- Justice must be seen to be done -- Colonial baggage -- Personal liberty after independence -- Progressive decay of democratic institutions -- The state as terrorist -- TADA: more repressive than Rowlatt -- Crime and punishment -- The weird jurisprudence of a dead act -- The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 -- A lament for the Constitution -- Why a Human Rights Commission? -- Granting the freedom to misuse freedom: secularism and minority rights -- Sanjay Dutt in the first person -- Can anti-secular parties govern? -- Narendra Modi's Hinduvta laboratory -- Scheduled castes: who's afraid of the law? -- Mr. President, the game was unequal -- We, the other people -- Competent but uncommitted judges -- What is wrong with judicial activism? -- What shall we do with our judiciary? -- A code of conduct for judges -- On the selection of judges: an open letter to the Chief Justice of India -- Collective action: the Andhra Pradesh lawyer's strike -- Governors and politics -- Privilege and obligation -- Political justice through concerted protest -- Defining right as wrong: reflections on associational freedoms and free speech -- Coca-cola and the Peoples' War Group -- Veerappan and the rule of law -- The Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee -- Koyyuru: reflections on a kidnap -- In the first person.