Justice Blind but is there a sane alternative???
Afzal Guru has two faces, depending on which side of the divide we stand. The bearded Muslim stereotyped terrorist, accused and found guilty of being a co-conspirator in a crime which in sheer magnitude if completed could have led to a cascading sequence of events potentially leading to the end to our existence. The other face is of a wronged Indian citizen treated harshly by a biased state. The logical end to a successful attack on Parliament would be nuclear conflagration leading to annihilation of large parts of our nations. This debate would then have been completely irrelevant for a law higher than the laws of the land would have run its course. However, destiny willed otherwise and the presence of mind of the security personnel and the collective karmas of our much maligned political class led to both nations surviving. While none of us seem to have learnt our lessons and we lurch for one disaster to another, today we need to ask the cliched question, Is justice blind? and more