NEW DELHI, July 13 -- Rights have gone all wrong in today's India! It is a season of discontent for millions everywhere: the pandemic COVID-19 has disrupted life and livelihoods, the routine and the 'normal'. People have been forced to adjust and to adapt; to become more frugal, more simple and much more. It is also been a time of immense grief, pain and suffering particularly for the poor and the marginalised; the migrant worker and the daily wager; the unemployed and the differently abled. To add insult to injury, India's insensitive ruling regime instead of responding to the genuine cries of the people has gone all out to decimate human rights, destroy the democratic ethos of society and to throttle every form of dissent and protest.
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