What is the content of grim realities hopeful hues
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Our lives are filled with pain and sufferings.
Some people experience more of these sufferings of human condition than others.
Hardships can overcome hope.
Hope gives us strength to invade misery and despair which is caused by misfortune, unforeseen job loss when on Friday afternoon when you’ve worked for lengthy hours over a project your boss calling you into his office, sitting you down by saying “Your fired.”
Perhaps an unanticipated ending of a marriage.
Your wife crying in bed when you’re willing to make love.
She turns to you and says “I’m unable to live with you anymore.”
Hope pushes us to fight into the darkness to journey onward despite the obstacles blocking trail of life.
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Standing on the threshold of the 21st century, Justice Krishna Iyer looks back at India
at the close of millennium. The concluding decade has been one of the victimisation- the
denial of basic human rights or dignity, inadequate judicial protection for citizens, terrorism,
police inaction or excessive interference, casteism, biopiracy, discrimination and disparity.
Through this essay V.R. Krishna Iyer tries to analyse the performance of the nation on the
human rights front at 1999. He starts the essay by delineating the role of the Supreme Court
and the High Court in the field of HRs. To him, the primary duty of the executive and the
law making bodies under the constitution is to make the right to life an actuality. Common
people can make use of these law making bodies if it seems that the rights relating to life,
liberty, equality and dignity are curtailed. They can get access to courts and awareness
regarding HR through PIL (Public Interest Litigation), NHRc (National Human Rights
Commission), state HRCs (Human Resource Commission at State Level) and NGOs (Non-
Governmental Organizations).
However, it is a grim reality that the violations of HRs by the state, terrorists and by
anti-social forces are rapidly escalating. They are predators of the marginalised masses,
especially women and children. But the grim realities on the ground find a silver lining in the
hues of horizon. The two rays of hope are i) intervention of the judiciary, taking the sovereign
immunity of the State and its minions in cases of constitutional wrong or violation ii) the
insightful interpretation of the judges to read UN instruments into national legislations, thus
strengthening human rights. Krishna lyer welcomes these trends as functional factors,
protective of human rights.
In the area of pollution PIL has gone a long way in checking noxious gas and
industrial effluents that are detrimental to health. But even the Supreme Court feels short of
expectations in the Union Carbide tragedy in Bhopal and the FACT Ammonia storage tank
case in Kerala. Some of the stay orders passed in recent years by the apex court suggestan
insensibility to human concerns. Pollution Control Boards and governments are ineffectual
leading the public to suspect their integrity..