by MUKUL DUBE
Give a lathi to a dim-witted man and his new ability to break heads and limbs with it will soon have him drunk on power. He will want ever bigger lathis with which to wreak more destruction.
In its action against Binayak Sen the State has been that imbecile. It seems reflexively to have selected the most destructive weapon in its arsenal: the charge of sedition.
It is beyond comprehension how a physician who works for the poor, and who attempts to prevent their further exploitation and further violence against them, can bring down the edifice of State.