Do We Indians Protect Law Breakers?

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Akrama Sakrama Scheme, culture, India, Kashmir Valley, law breakers, Rajya Sabha, stone pelters

Do we Indians as a race favour the underdog so much that our sympathies lie with law breakers? Also, with those who would not have suffered had they followed the laws in the first place? Is it part of our cultural ethos that we push as much as we can until rebuffed, and then complain about injustice meted out to us? I have examples from the macro to the micro, so this set me thinking.

Of Rekha, Sachin and the Rajya Sabha

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Rajya Sabha, Rekha, Sachin Tendulkar

The Rajya Sabha, India’s Upper House of Parliament is made up of 250 members. Most of these are elected by the political parties and are supposed to represent the various States of the country. It doesn’t matter even if you don’t live in a State, you can be their representative in the Rajya Sabha. Our former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh represented Assam for several terms in this manner.