[Reader-list] About Agency

[Venugopalan K M]

Dear Rakesh,
Thanks for your kind response.  Later I too posted it the list,though I
didn't know if login were necessary for posting a message.(I'm new to this
list)That case, I hope you'll post this message too.
About agency, I would argue that  it may not be quite possible to locate one
that prefectly matches the  freedom and rights in question.
Hence, at least to begin with, agency of Constitution/ Rule of Law could be
seen as a reference point.
You have the patriarchal family where women and younger members are
structurally deprived of rights of citizenship, despite the existence of the
Constitutional Agency guaranteeing citizenship to all. You have those
political parties and  police regimes which again, often seek to bye pass
Rule of Law by virtue of the very fact that majority of people are too poor
or voiceless to place their stakes in citizenship before  the presiding
agency of Constitution.
Similarly, many of those the UN bodies are comparatively dysfunctional when
it comes to the protection of rights of women,labourers, and implementation
of the related covenants at governmental levels.
The question raised by the issue of pub attack and several other similar
attacks on women and minorities by various outfits of Hidutwa  is obviously
not media hype. This is rather about new claims for agency. These claims
are  culmination of a series of acts by all political parties that
tantamount to subversion of Rule of Law. Fascist outfits are just trying to
prevail up on the agency of Constitution by claiming new form of nationhood
,viz, Hindutwa to the exclusion of other sections claiming their legitimate
rights for citizenship and inclusiveness.
Regards,
Venu.
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