Experts & Views
Nowadays I have seen my cows tease the buffaloes. The reason is simple. Cows are lighter in colour and can bear the brunt of this heat. Buffaloes are dark and have to suffer. But my buffaloes spend their time lazing around in ponds and have a good time.
Now, when I was taking this road to some place I saw a poor man, with no chappal/ slipper/ footwear walking on the road. It was so hot that his feet might have been roasted. I felt sad. I felt bad. I thought something must be done.
The expression 'life' assured in Article 21 of the Constitution does not connote mere animal existence or continued drudgery through life. It has a much wider meaning which includes right to livelihood, better standard of living...The right to life with human dignity encompasses within its fold, some of the finer facets of human civilisation which makes life worth living. (See Consumer education and research center v. Union of India, AIR1995SC922 para 24). This is for all those who say that my blog doesn't deal with law. Ha!
Now, being without a footwear on a hot Indian road denotes animal existence. Should our engineer brothers come with some material which makes road 'WHITE'. This will reduce some of the pains of the poor in India who cannot afford a footwear. Or maybe there should be an all India footwear program to provide footwear at subsidised rates to the poor.
Please post in your suggestions.
PS- Whiter roads will also be good for the rich. In summers the air pressure in tyres gets uneven and disturbed. This might sometimes lead to road accidents. White roads will also solve this problem. What say?
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The Indian Constitution has this very big flaw that reduces the faith of the citizens in the same. Its high time the system takes in these Fundamental Rights in a more positive way. With this atleast every Indian will have a good life and liberty to some extent. What are you protecting if a person does not have that in the first place?
Alokita Krishna
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow
But i guess white roads would look dirty. :P
Now coming to negative connotation, State is not expected to create rights but it has to see that rights are enforced .... moreover, infringement of right takes place only when there exists a right for which you seek remedy .... so for a matter of fact the right already exists , you just have to identify it. This is with regards to the author's comment on taking "the rights in a more positive way".
i only wish to say that dont just use the poverty around u to write in blogs and get some name out of it....if u r being approached for some partnership or some team work in this regard atleast u can give inputs..but shunning them away is quite unbecoming of such a writer...y did u write this piece in the first place...just to win a blog competition? well then i dont have much to say but just doubt ur ethics and morals....'legally' u arent doing anything wrong!
the least i had expected from u was some inputs and advice...alright...no hard feelings as u know...only constructive criticism...and yeah u do know what happened to that gift of urs...probably something needs to be done about such kind of robbers as well...but what and how?!
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