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As the rule of law recedes in India, a new majoritarian consensus emerges  https://scroll.in/article/1037771/as-the-rule-of-law-recedes-in-india-a-new-majoritarian-consensus-emerges  Why did the school apologise for promoting unity and harmony?  Quite apparently because they feared local Hindu groups, who – if the rule of law functioned as the Constitution provides – should have faced police prosecution for intimidation.

Instead, as these groups have increasingly demonstrated, they feel emboldened and empowered enough to enforce their own views, as they threaten colleges, raid pubs and resorts in pursuit of their own definition of morality. Muslim groups and extremists, too, ignore the rule of law, murdering Hindu fundamentalists and enforcing their own rules of moral policing. The difference is the Muslim groups get no support from the state. The Hindu groups, as Article 14 reported, obviously do.

There are examples in India of majoritarian proclivities creeping and codified into the law itself, as my colleagues have extensively reported: from laws against cow slaughter, inter-faith love (here and here) and conversions, to often illegal and unconstitutional demolition of properties.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022.pdf (meity.gov.in) https://www.meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/The%20Digital%20Personal%20Data%20Protection%20Bill%2C%202022.pdf

https://www.businesstoday.in/opinion/columns/story/why-the-promised-right-to-privacy-and-data-protection-law-has-not-been-enacted-yet-223449-2019-08-30 enforcers and interpreters of law have shown unpardonable callousness with regard to the age of 'big data' or the collection of data sets which are 'marked by their exhaustive scope and the permanency of collection'. It entails 'profiling' by automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person. It includes analysis or prediction of aspects concerning natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements for the 'nth' time...

The failure of Supreme Court to ensure enactment of right to privacy and data protection law has grave consequences for India's position on e-commerce, computing cloud, cyber jurisdiction, high computing capacity, artificial intelligence, mathematical algorithms, and analytics, which have the potential to make digital colonisation fool-proof through data colonisation in what is being called the Fourth Revolution. Government manoeuvres are grossly procedural, formalistic and insincere. The proposal of Draft Personal Data Protection Bill and the Privacy Bill is akin to putting a cart before the horse.

Why BJP is so upset if Medha Joined Bharat Jodo Yatra? Bharat Jodo Yatra I Medha Patkar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKy4xSb45F8  19-11-22
भारत जोड़ो यात्रा में मेधा पाटकर राहुल गाँधी के साथ दिखने के बाद बीजेपी क्यों परेशान हो गई? क्या वह गुजरात चुनाव में इसका फ़ायदा उठाने के लिए ऐसा कर रही है? क्या राहुल गाँधी ने मेधा पाटकर के साथ चलकर राजनीतिक ग़लती की है? क्या इससे काँग्रेस को गुजरात चुनाव में नुक़सान हो सकता है? डॉ. मुकेश कुमार बात कर रहे हैं जानी मानी सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता मेधा पाटकर से-