About the Book
This book is a collection of author’s small write-ups and comments on social media on variety of contemporary political , economic and social issues . Author has aimed to break the stereotypes in people’s mind about religion ,caste, race , nationality, liberalism etc by bringing in historical ,social , scientific factual perspectives on contemporary issues. Author has intended to struggle out a highly partisan and belligerent disposition on the part of contesting social groups . Genius to innovate and to get out of box thinking is a rarely commodity in our society . Consequently religious and ideological obscurantism , fanaticism , belligerent caste devide , nationality devides and mistrust are getting further entrenched in the medieval , patriarchal mindsets . The author has highlighted the blurring of our constitutionally acclaimed national ,social objectives and goals unfavorably impacting both the social , cultural development and the economic growth .
About the Author
The author is a senior advocate practicing law in the Supreme court and Patna High court. He is also a political human-rights activist . During last twenty eight years he focused his activities on issues of criminalization of the politics , landlessness and homelessness of large deprived masses in Bihar. He successfully argued fodderscame PIL before Patna High court. Challenging presence of mafia's in ruling political parties he successfully highlighted this issue in several PILs which the High court and the Supreme court entertained earnestly and very seriously. To illustrate a few of those , the PILs relating to bar on imprisoned history sheeters to contest election ( vide Election commission India vs Jan chowkidar & others,upheld by the supreme court ) ; Ineligibility of a convict legislature to contest election ( Basant k. Choudhary vs Union of India decided by the supreme court ) ; direction issued by the Patna High court to the speaker of Loksabha to prevent members of parliament who were facing warrant of arrest orders from attending house sessions without obtaining bail first , are notable illustration of his activism.. He took up the issue of inhuman conditions prevailing in police custody ,a serious hazard that accused persons face before and the Patna High court vide Basant k. Choudhary vs State of Bihar intervened in right earnest to order complete overhaul of the conditions prevailing in police stations. There is unending list political and social activitism and public interest litigations demonstrating author's serious concern for homeless , landless , rot in school and university education , growing communalism , plunder of public exchequer by the ruling class .
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