CHAPTER 34

Now, the boldest boy in the class; Samson rose and walked to the front of the class.

No greetings, no informalities. He went straight to the point.

“Today, I’m going to be talking about HUMAN RIGHTS; IN INDIA AND DIASPORA.”

Everyone stared.

“A right is described as an entitlement or justified claim to a certain kind of positive and negative treatment from others, to support from others or non-interference from others. In other words, a right is something to which every individual in the community is morally permitted, and for which that community is entitled to disrespect or compulsorily remove anything that stands in the way of even a single individual getting it. Rights belong to individuals, and no organization has any rights not directly derived from those of its members as individuals; and, just as an individual’s rights cannot extend to where they will intrude on another individual’s rights, similarly the rights of any organisation whatever must yield to those of a single indivi