Human Rights in the New Millennium

Fossilised thoughts and ideas become fragile and brittle. The time has changed to keep aside the fossil – thoughts and generate new perspectives. This book triggers off the new vista and vision. Part I of the book takes on the new parameters of Indian constitutionalism that could lead to paradigm-shift. The fractured spots could be identified. The hyper-activism of the judiciary has garnered sufficient supporters and opponents. Yet it is a hard reality. Part II of the book considers the human rights situation in both peacetime and conflict period. The human rights aspects in the new century cannot merely sustain the old values and perceptions. Similarly, the armed conflict situation demands conformity by the parties involved with some irreconciliable conducts even in the midst of indomitable passions and causes. In the North-East of India, the armed forces have virtual impunity, as empowered by the special laws which are draconian to the extreme limit. Wherever the human rights fail, humanity suffers most. Part III is a miscellany of wider perceptions about law, legal discourses that transcend the accepted frontiers of traditional legal thought and of the remote cousins of law like diplomacy, futurology which are not truly in the focus of the legal discourse. These exercises however, could also be considered as inputs to the wider and enlarged discourse about law. The treatise is worth reading for trend-setters and unconventional ideas – persons and think-tanks of this age.