Rhetoric Versus Reality: Essays on Human Rights, Justice and Democratic Values

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Rhetoric versus Reality, a volume in the series New Agenda for Humanity, is in fact a case for making a world where there is respect for the human entitlement to justice, equality, dignity and liberty. The presenter is Indiaâ€™s tallest of the tall legal luminaries, Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India and a great voice on the matters discussed here. For the sake of convenience, the study has been divided into two parts, covering the global scene and the Indian scene respectively. The write-ups are 14 in all. Exact in scholarship and profound in detail, they are an essential reading for all those who want to tease out for themselves an understanding of the complex debates going on these days on rights, justice and democratic values. They answer difficult questions and dispel darkness. Specialists, activists and generalists will, it is hoped, benefit a great deal from this remarkable work.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR V R Krishna Iyer

V.R. Krishna Iyer was born in 1915 at Palghat in Kerala State. He was a Cabinet Minister of the Government of Kerala during 1957-58. He became a Judge of the Kerala High Court in 1968 and a Member of the Law Commission of India in 1971. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court of India from 1973 to 1980. He believes that law must serve society, particularly the unprivileged. He moulded law to give justice to the poor. Shri Iyer is in the forefront of those who are working for a better world. He has a mission in life and for its fulfilment, he is busy day and night. The subject which is dearest to him is social justice to achieve which he has spent the whole of his life.