questions about criminal justice system https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/in-mumbai-train-blast-case-acquittal-19-years-later-raises-questions-about-criminal-justice-system-10140964/ by Meeran Chadha Borwankar The High Court acquitting all of them after 10 years shows that something is terribly amiss in the criminal justice system. If they were innocent, how do we justify their incarceration for nearly 19 years? And if they were part of the terror gang responsible for the mass killing, why are they allowed to go scot-free? Comment: Every recording/confession must be date and time stamped. And a comprehensive list of all interviews and interaction in police custody must be provided to the defense. And we as public have to be shown the process, rather than get byte to assuage public outcry..
A Remarkable Judgement Mumbai Mirror MIHIR DESAI 
(courtesy: Mumbai Mirror - awaiting a link of the above)
SSen - on Whats app 22-7-25: The gaps in this sort of path breaking judgement:
-- No compensation ordered either on the ground of torture or ruination of lives.
-- No fixing of accountability of the concerned officials of the investigating agency which took the easy and cruel path of showing up a rabbit as a tiger in order to claim solving the case and botched up the investigation.
The real culprits of the heinous crime, hence, have gone scott free and, most likely, are roaming free.
Freny M on Whatsapp Am quite shocked with this lazy regurgitation of the police versions. At the very least the reporter could have tried to speak to families to get more info.. The role of the media when covering such important cases also needs to come under scrutiny...
Do they exhibit healthy skepticism or then just toe in with police narrative which is so much easier.
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/who-12-men-acquitted-7-11-mumbai-train-blasts-case-10139460/ Written by Zeeshan Shaikh
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-editorials/terror-of-omissions/ judges have revealed about the shoddy investigation and prosecution’s negligence. HC said prosecution had “utterly failed to prove the case” beyond reasonable doubt. That such “deceptive closure undermines public trust while the true threat remains at large.” Trial court’s conviction was junked on several points that included 1) confessions were a product of torture, 2) it was ‘very odd’ that witnesses identified the accused after four years, 3) witnesses were ‘stock witnesses’, rolled out frequently, 4) it took three months before one witness claimed to have seen bombs ‘assembled’, 5) prosecution’s evidence was simply ‘not safe’ to base convictions on.
In the last set of arguments, advocate Muralidhar, who appeared for Muzzamil Ataur Rahman Shaikh, and Zameer Ahmed Latifur Rehman Shaikh looked in detail at the lapses in investigation and how the confession statements of the defendants were extracted forcefully. Under the stringent MCOCA law, confessions made before a police officer are admissible in a court, making the situation even more precarious for accused.
https://thewire.in/law/mumbai-train-blasts-all-twelve-men-acquitted-wrongful-jailed
He also had called the entire investigation a “media trial”. His entire submission focused on bringing out the biased nature of the investigation.
Murlidhar, in his written submission had argued: “Innocent people are sent to jail and then years later when they are released from jail there is no possibility for reconstruction of their lives… From last 17 years (now 19) these accused are in jail. They haven’t stepped out even for a day. The majority of their prime life is gone. In such cases where there is a public outcry, the approach by police is always to first assume guilt and then go from there.”
On the behaviour of the police, Muralidhar had said: “Police officers take press conferences in such cases, and the way the media covers the case, it kind of decides the guilt of a person. In many such terror cases, investigating agencies have failed us miserably.”
21/07/2025
Extract from Alexander Beiner -
The end of Postmodernism and the promise of Theosis https://beiner.substack.com/p/welcome-to-peak-fragmentation We are living through Peak Fragmentation. Across the Western world, there is a resurgence of traditionalism and authoritarianism in response. A ‘quiet revival’ of Christianity is getting louder every day. Others are looking to new horizons, building AI religions or retreating to ‘conscious communities’ to try and sow the seeds of a new society.
death of a cultural aesthetic : postmodernism
people also tend to be more prosocial and conscientious when they’re embedded in a coherent social network.
people’s commitment to values like love, honour and justice is often viewed as independent of culture...economic pressures often force people to trade those ‘sacred values’ in what he calls ‘taboo trade-offs,
desire to reconnect to these authentic values.
We could revert to a more authoritarian, closed-minded traditionalism, or beat the dead horse of progressive politics
we have an opportunity to re-craft culture in a way that takes the best of postmodernism and combines it with traditionalism to create something new.
Exhausted trying to figure out what it actually means to be progressive, or conservative. Political homelessness
idea that human beings can become like God through grace... It’s also found in the Hindu concept of Tat Tvam Asi, or “thou art that” which teaches that Self (Atman) is not separate from ultimate reality (Brahman). Threads of this non-dual awareness are also found in Integral Theory, Nora Bateson’s Warm Data, Trish Blain’s Four Forces, Iain McGilchrist’s work, and countless other people we’ve had on Kainos recently.
Many of these perspectives see reality as made up not of distinct things, but of relationships. In a relational view on reality, truth can’t be boiled down to a single polarity or story. Instead, all things, all paradoxes, all truths and contradictions are contained in a whole which is neither part nor whole.
We can combat pre-rational forces of authoritarianism by growing a culture that embraces multiculturalism, but doesn’t shy away from celebrating white identity and history. Education that recognises everyone learns differently, but doesn’t do away with rote learning and discipline when it’s required. Sexual politics that recognise the unfair power dynamics at play around gender identity, without shying away from biological reality in the process.
Embedding trans-rational perspectives into mainstream culture is one route toward the cultural aesthetic that comes after postmodernism,