On taxes, death and the Indian state’s god-complex
Taxes, death and the Indian state’s god-complex + ever increasing appetite for surveillance are just some of the certainties of life in India.
This is absurd, law enforcement cannot/should not issue such ‘diktats’ in any context. 
“rule”-of-law means a different thing here
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