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Courtroom on the idiot box

14 March, 2007 by Amit Varma

“High-profile court trials live on TV soon,” reports the Times of India. The report elaborates:

The government is speaking to major SMS operators to examine the feasibility of having major cases decided by public voting.

Ok, ok, I made that second bit up. The government doesn’t need to do that. It has other revenue streams.

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Amit Varma is a writer and podcaster based in Mumbai. He has been a journalist since 2001, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007 and 2015. He writes the blog India Uncut and hosts the weekly podcast, The Seen and the Unseen.

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