{"id":27732,"date":"2018-10-23T15:52:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27732"},"modified":"2018-10-23T15:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:22:45","slug":"the-crackdown-on-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-crackdown-on-civil-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The crackdown on civil society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/the-crackdown-on-civil-society\/article24813624.ece\">The crackdown on civil society<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Article<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Neera Chandhoke, a former Professor of Political Science has talked about the role of civil society in modern democratic state.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Analysis:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Author has acknowledged the concern posed by the modern democratic state armed with technologies used for surveillance and control the induvial rights.<\/p>\n<p>3. When democratic state decide to terrorise and kill, rights-bearing citizen are more vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>4. Civil society plays an important role between suffering citizens and the democratic state.<\/p>\n<p><u>5. Role of Civil Societies<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Civil societies have become the custodian of fundamental rights.<\/li>\n<li>In a form of association drives their power through petitions, protest and judicial activism.<\/li>\n<li>Civil society efforts enable citizen access rights and privileges.<\/li>\n<li>All democratic associations are important but civil liberty and human rights groups are essential for human wellbeing.<\/li>\n<li>Civil liberty or human rights activists are lawyers, academics, journalists and public minded citizens of India and protect the moral conscience of our society.<\/li>\n<li>Protected the rights of vulnerable section (e.g. Adivasis, Muslims and Dalits).<\/li>\n<li>During the emergency (1975-77),citizen\u2019s fundamental rights were suppressed and suspended however the civil liberties movement in the later period has helped them to protect and restore.<\/li>\n<li>Conducting investigation against the state arbitrary imprisonment, custodial death and encounters and speak against the state.<\/li>\n<li>Document the real cause of communal and caste violence.<\/li>\n<li>Provide check and balances against abuse of power by government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6. There are very few organization like Human rights, who struggle for right to life and liberty.<\/p>\n<p>7. Though all civil societies and media do not perform the same duty. Some of them only focus on the fund.<\/p>\n<p><u>8. Challenges faced by Civil Societies:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Political leader dismiss the need of civil societies.<\/li>\n<li>They are being arrested and prisoned for no reason<\/li>\n<li>Increasing threat from government and right-wing organization (specialised in violence).<\/li>\n<li>For example the Maharashtra police has arrested lawyers, poets and academics in Aug 2018 for their defence and violent attack by Hindu right-wing activist on Dalits gathering at Bhima-Koregaon in 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>9. Urban Maoism is another term which has no historical or geographical connection who seems to be involved into Bhima-Koregaon violence.<\/p>\n<p>10. Rights to life and liberty are the core of other rights and has caused political revolution in the past.<\/p>\n<p>11. A well-known Italian theorist has concluded revolution only occur when government directly suppress or attack on the society as it happens in Russia. Author refer this a Boomerang Effect.<\/p>\n<p>12. However this can be avoided with the presence of civil societies who take the burden on their shoulders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crackdown on civil society Article: Neera Chandhoke, a former Professor of Political Science has talked about the role of civil society in modern democratic state. Important Analysis: 2. Author has acknowledged the concern posed by the modern democratic state armed with technologies used for surveillance and control the induvial rights. 3. 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