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Viewpoint: Why India was wrong to hang Yakub Memon - BBC News
Viewpoint: Why India was wrong to hang Yakub Memon – BBC News
The execution of the 1993 Mumbai bombings convict Yakub Memon last week has caused a great deal of debate in India. Questions have been raised over whether the execution was carried out in accordance with the process set out by law. Memon’s defence attorney Anand Grover explains here why he thinks it was not. (more…)
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Two Songs and A Dead Man
I sit here wondering how Yakub Memon felt just before he was taken to the gallows at 7:00 a.m. These were the thoughts that went through my head as I remembered the song by Gurudev Tagore. Did he sleep? Was he afraid? (Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high)
Did he know why the country failed him? Did everyone know why he did, the things he did? (Where knowledge is free)
Was he worried for the people who were baying for his blood? (Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls)
Did these people really believe that by sentencing him to death would give them justice? (Where words come out from the depth of truth) Did Justice finally prevail? (Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection)
Did the people truly believe their justification for his death? (Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way) (Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit) Are we really free at all? (Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.) And now I am reminded of the last words from our National Anthem, also written by Tagore. They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise. The saving of all people waits in thy hand, Thou dispenser of India's destiny. victory forever.
The Birth of Rama and the Death of Yakub!
Today has been a historic day for the Indian judiciary and probably a mundane day for all Indians. Today one of the convicts of the ’93 cataclysmic blasts in Mumbai was sent to gallows and hanged till death. My early memories of the blasts go way back, I was probably six or seven at the time of the riots and subsequent bombings, I watched on the television as the city burned and the communal…
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