Goa, Oct. 29 -- MARIAN PINHEIRO

The recent mass eruption of social media posts featur ing visuals of police bru tality against protesting youth, especially women and young girls, should shake the con science of every right-thinking Indian. It highlights the urgent need to reorganise the police force. The police system of 1861 was created for a colonial state, not a constitutional democracy. It was designed in an age when the State regarded large sections of the population as subjects to be administered and controlled. The Constitution fundamentally altered the relationship between citizen and State. The Indian citizen is not the subject of a ruler. The Constitu tion begins with "We, the People of India". Political authority ulti mately d...