The wrongs of rights

Over the past few years, two features of the Indian political landscape have stood out: unprecedented levels of corruption and the efflorescence of socio-economic rights - from information to education, and from food to employment. Last year, the Supreme Court even recognised the right to sleep. The same government that has actively connived in corroding India's public institutions - epitomised by the sorry state of the apex institution of the executive branch, or the Cabinet - has sought to pass supposedly...

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