The utter mindlessness of it all

It’s a measure of the completely crazy paralysis of governance India faces that even mercy petitions and death sentences are now dependent on electoral cycles. Recently, the President of India rejected the mercy petition of two individuals, Mahendra Nath Das of Guwahati, Assam, and Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar of Punjab. Predictably the controversy about Afzal Guru’s mercy petition, still pending before the President, was also reignited.

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