Then they came for the Jews & I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew, Then they came for the Catholics & I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant, Then they came for me & by that time there was nobody left to speak up”
The trajectory of Dr.Binayak Sen’s life sojourns you through the hallowed boulevards of a medical college, fora felicitating him with awards of humanitarian excellence & finally halting in a cramped & solitary cell of the Raipur (Chhattisgarh) Central Jail. In May 2007, Dr. Sen was detained for his
An MBBS & MD (Pediatrics) Sen’s incarceration has showcased the trilogical nexus of the Bureaucracies, echelons of Politics & the Executive. His academic acumen provided him with lucrative offers but he never succumbed to such materialistic temptations rather channelized his philanthropy to bolster the underprivileged. The only Asian to receive the prestigious Jonathan Mann Award, plethora of mobile hospital, schools & rural employment schemes were the brainchild of Dr.Sen.It is undoubtedly heart rending to see that a state that has been the very background of Sen’s achievement in the field of Rural Health Care Schemes has hunted him down with its draconian laws.
But what made Binayak Sen the “marked man” within the Chhattisgarh polity?. Sen is the National Vice-President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and General Secretary of its Chhattisgarh unit. In this capacity, he helped organize numerous investigations into alleged human rights violations carried out during anti-Naxalite operations. The alleged violations included the murder of unarmed and innocent civilians by the anti-Naxalite movement “Salwa Judum”. Thus, the state governance had its own vendetta to quell Sen’s chutzpah & an unfortunate turn of episodes including fabrication of key evidences & propagating conjectures by the State police was triggered against Sen. Amid such ignominy, there is sea shift in the way the society views such social activists. Nobel Laureates have rallied behind Dr. Sen’s acquittal.”The Argumentative Indian” Dr. Amartya Sen in a letter to the Prime Minister described the jurisdiction as being “unjust”. The Amnesty International & National Human Rights Commission has appealed to the judiciary for a judicial review of the verdict. Spouse Illina Sen says, “There is support both at home & abroad but not in the Chhattisgarh administration."
Even after such a “miscarriage” of justice went unnoticed,Illina Sen still invests her trust in the Indian Judiciary by taking further litigation's to the Supreme Court. In a world were individual eyes stars that glitter & talk glibly, cricketers who can hit the ball hard, integrity, austerity & truth remains endangered”. It is no coincidence that men like Julian Assange, Binayak Sen & many more are facing trials because they mustered the audacity to uphold the baton of truth. A deaf ear to their appeals would churn in sedating societal equity.
