Shafeeq R. Mahajir

A court that is structurally more responsive to the deaths of the socially visible than to the systemic suffering of the structurally invisible is not exercising judicial power in its constitutional sense; it is exercising judicial preference.

If you refuse the comfort of despair and the easy relief of hatred, you will look back from some future vantage point and see that this period, too, was a passage. Difficult, costly, and necessary.

A state that invests in bollards to prevent violence values life. A state that deploys bulldozers to raze the historic and sacred spaces of its minority citizens has abandoned the idea of justice.