3 posts
Registered atrocity cases against Dalits rose sharply in Tamil Nadu between 2019 and 2023. The number matters—but it cannot, by itself, tell us whether violence, reporting, registration, or all three changed.
Comparing free-speech regimes by reading their constitutions gets you the wrong answer. India's enumerated restrictions are not far from Germany's, and further from America's. The difference that matters is that a struck-down provision produced twice as many cases after it was struck down as before.
Modern justice systems prioritize downstream punishment over upstream prevention, a strategy that consistently fails. This piece examines why societies invest in reactive measures rather than addressing root causes of harm.
