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Idea of reasonable restrictions, democracy as a threat and protector of democracy itself and those who don't bother to see constitution as the biggest religion in the future

If you pay attention to the headline of the discourse then it can be observed that they pop up separately in our day to day life. There is a convergence of the three with each other. Idea of the reasonable restrictions in interest of the general public has been put into the constitution deliberately. There is a precise selection of each of the word from the sea of social administration and judicial balance. Paramount is the 'interest' of the 'public', but it's paramountcy is traded with the words like 'reasonable restrictions' and 'general' to balance their encroachment (public side view). In other words, it is an attempt to handle the disorder which may prevail if will of the public is given paramountcy (administrator side view). It can be said to be a non-empirical and non-mathematical model of validation. Presently, when you come across TV Series' like Person of Interest and alike, this fundamental method of reasoning seems to be loosening i

Ghar me ma-behen nahi hain kya ?

Broad idea of 'Ghar me Ma-Behen nahi hain kya ?' Actually, latent idea of these remarks are to point out the significance of family as an institution. We can better understand significance of this remark in context of issues raised about human rights violations in North East, Kashmir and Pir-panchal regions of our nation-state. A state based apparatus is ought to exist to keep security agents accountable. This mechanism safeguard the state as a custodian of constitution and hold very idea of India as a nation. But, it is also imperative to understand the significance of social institution like family which implicitly infuse a sense of civil stability and sense of accountability directly to an actor. When the actor is blamed to have made a human rights violation, family as an institution can act as a reference for an actor. In order to act as an incharge of security, law and order situations, actor has to calibrate his actions in varying circumstances to remai

Facebookia Lahar

Can Facebook go mainstream ? At Facebook people showcase idealistic and extreme projections of oneself. Idealism is an utopian concept and reality keep a balanced distance with it. In order to go mainstream, facebook has to become a very close ally of reality and play intermittent role in societal functions. Since, content of facebook have these two attributes of being idealist and extreme in manifestation,   it distances itself from reality. So, either facebook has to moderate itself to converge to reality or influence reality to transform into facebook ideals. Moreover, it is only a matter of scope and extent to go into these two proposed projections which should be empirically tested to draw any conclusion. Presently,   it is evident from the activities on facebook that people tend to express themselves in extreme form of expressions through filmy facebook posts, weird captions, sharing dubsmash videos or misplaced smileys. Hence, Facebook can be said to be in l