Friend not foe: Popular sovereignty in the Indian constitution
By: Kumar, Alok Prasanna
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BookPublisher: IIC Quarterly Description: 48(3 & 4),Winter 2021, Spring 2022: p.15-24.
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IIC QuarterlySummary: Quentin Tarantino’s Second World War fantasy, Inglourious
Basterds, features a taut scene in the beginning where the
antagonist, SS Colonel Hans Landa—a Nazi detective on
the lookout for fugitive Jews—interrogates a French farmer, Pierre
LaPadite. The scene isn’t a classic ‘interrogation’ with violence and
open intimidation, but one where Landa slowly and methodically
extracts from LaPadite the exact location of where the Jews are hiding
in his house. During this back and forth, Landa compares Jews, as
Nazis were wont to do, to rats, but surprisingly proclaims that he does
not see the comparison as an insult. Landa points out that a rat must
survive in a hostile world not of its making, earning hatred for no
obvious reason. He gets LaPadite to admit that humanity has learnt
to despise rats for no reason even as other rodents, such as squirrels,
capable of just as much harm, earn nowhere near enough hatred.- Reproduced
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Quentin Tarantino’s Second World War fantasy, Inglourious
Basterds, features a taut scene in the beginning where the
antagonist, SS Colonel Hans Landa—a Nazi detective on
the lookout for fugitive Jews—interrogates a French farmer, Pierre
LaPadite. The scene isn’t a classic ‘interrogation’ with violence and
open intimidation, but one where Landa slowly and methodically
extracts from LaPadite the exact location of where the Jews are hiding
in his house. During this back and forth, Landa compares Jews, as
Nazis were wont to do, to rats, but surprisingly proclaims that he does
not see the comparison as an insult. Landa points out that a rat must
survive in a hostile world not of its making, earning hatred for no
obvious reason. He gets LaPadite to admit that humanity has learnt
to despise rats for no reason even as other rodents, such as squirrels,
capable of just as much harm, earn nowhere near enough hatred.- Reproduced
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