கே.ஜி.கண்ணபிரான்,கே.பாலகோபால்

2009ஆம் ஆண்டு வேலையை ராஜினாமா செய்துவிட்டு சட்டம் படிக்கவேண்டும் என்ற எண்ணம் மேலோங்கியது. அவ்வவ்போது இப்படி எதாவது தோன்றும்.அப்போது இரண்டு கல்லூரிகளை முடிவு செய்தேன்.ஒன்று டெல்லி சட்டக் கல்லூரி மற்றது பனாரஸ் இந்து பல்கலைக்கழகம்.ஒரு வரிசைப்பட்டியலை பார்த்து அந்த முடிவுக்கு வந்தேன்.விண்ணப்பிக்கவும் செய்தேன்.நுழைவுச்சீட்டு கூட வந்தது.வீட்டில் ஒரே ரகளை.சண்டை.அழுகை.கிட்டத்தட்ட அந்த காலகட்டத்தில் கே.பாலகோபால் இறந்துவிட்டார் என்று நினைக்கிறேன்.கே.ஜி.கண்ணபிரான் அவரைப்பற்றி EPWவில் ஒரு கட்டுரை எழுதியிருந்தார்.அதை படித்துவிட்டு அவருக்கு ஒரு கடிதம் எழுதினேன்.அதில் முதல் பகுதி பரவாயில்லை.இரண்டாவது பகுதியில் மாலை நேர வகுப்புகள் இருக்கக்கூடிய சட்டக்கல்லூரிகள் எவை என்றும் கேட்டு எழுதினேன்.அதை ஏன் அவரிடம் கேட்டேன் என்று புரியவில்லை.அவர் கடிதத்தின் முதல் பகுதிக்கு பதில் எழுதியிருந்தார்.நீண்ட பதில்.என்னுடைய கடிதமும் அவருடைய கடிதமும் கீழே.

Mr.Kannabiran,

This particular mail is for obtaining information for personal reasons.So you can ignore the mail if you find it as nuissance.I read your article about Balagopal recently in EPW.I beleive that through the Court of Law lot of cases with regard to Human rights violations can be fought and justice be obtained.But anyway , recently i read a article by Balagopal "Beyond Violence and non-violence" , in which he questions the comman man belief in Legal system who is convinced that the Violent means will bear no fruit and goes further questioning the ignorance of comman man on not being aware of the class the Judges represent.He concludes the particular article that only mass people movements can do the changes.But I would like to know if there any law colleges that provide Part-time LLB courses through which after completion i will be able to practise law.As far as the information I got , it seems the bar council only accepts the Full time Law courses.Please let me know if you have information about it.

Thanks
Sarwothaman.

DEAR FREIND , you are welcome write to me and if I am not tired and not out of moods I will
try to answer querie. I have set out in bare outline what I thought are his views on law and human rights.
I have not read this article referred to by you.I entered the Rights Movement a decade earlier before him
from the time Naxalite movemnt in the state of AP. We brothers were beleivers in Marx and I am associated with the Communists from my college days . Those were days one sixth of the word was Socialist.
Infact the Arch Bishop Canrerburry in the Forties was called Red Dean.

That was the first Socilist wave ,I need not go in to its history.It survived for about six to eight decades.
Because of the promises it held out when it fell it was characterised as a "Collapse". In the Short life span
it imposed a threat to western imperialist countries.Winston Churchil on the death of Stalin said Stalin came to power when there was only a wooden plough , when he left it was the foremost Nuclear power.His authoritarian Rule was christened Totalitarian Dictatorship.It foundered on the human rights violations reported . Human Rights as a concept was evolved after the fall of Germany and after the Rise of Socialist Countries.The western powers never measured governance with this yard stick.They used this Yards stick
to stalin more than to any other government.US violation of human rights has been legion.Destroyed a system which if allowed to exist could have rectified its governance and provided the people a
better world.

Coming to the issue raised by you he was disillusioned by the judges and their attitudes towards peoples problems.Even at the young age of 21 I was aware of quality and character of the institution and had Balagopal joined at an early stage he would have felt so. He was prodigy in Maths. Witnessing relentless brutality by the Young Naxal movement he decide to fight it. As long as there was a vision of social change attached to the Rights movement the fight had a goal and was inspiring. But he perceived the distortions in the movement things changed for him. He structured a new Human Rights organisation.He was basically poor peoples Advocate and very rarely the poor get such brillant lawyers.The statement he made is true.People beleive that Courts can do something for them.

This faith in courts is a phenomenon after the 1975 Emergency. After the courts shameful performance that led to the Emergency and the MISA and their upholding of the Detention led to tremendous loss of credibility . After people voted out Indira Gandhi out of power the court recovered their lost place in the sun suddenly and to expiate their sins of culpable ommissions they devised the public interest litigation. THIS GOT THEM SOME NAME.LAWYERS NEED SOME BRIEF AND LAWYERS LIKE US THOUGHT THINGS CAN BRING ABOUT CHANGES IN GOVERNANCE THROUGH COURTS LITTLE BY LITTLE.

This hope was belied.That must be what he has intended. His illusion he transferrred on to peoples faith.

Yet pitched upon the idea of creating awareness of rights in the people which would make the rights awareness in the people discipline Governance. He worked on this principle with tremendous courage and conviction. With a profession with very minimal awareness of their responsibilities to the society which nourished sheltered them in comfort. I think I will stop here. I can go on and on. I am eighty plus .

Thank you regards kgk

K.G. KANNABIRAN

National President, PUCL