Coloniality, Legal System and the Common Man
Photo by Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash "If they go to High Court, I'll go all the way up to Supreme Court. I have financial strength. Even if I die, my son would fight the case." said the angry old man. He said that when I tried to work out a compromise between two warring parties in a civil dispute. I'm no lawyer, but believe that older people can live a lot happier if they don't have to deal with the courts or the governments. The parties involved were highly educated, held high offices in the government or private sectors. This gives one of the many reasons for the cases piling up in our courts. Unlike a village Panchyat that has a responsibility and an interest towards resolving local issues, our courts are the creations of coloniality. They are often disconnected from the ground realities. The farther the courts are from the locations of dispute, the more disconnected they are. To be fair to the system, in this...