Kumar, Alok Prasanna  <br/><br/>
Friend not foe: Popular sovereignty in the Indian constitution   

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