CURRENT AFFA I R S 16 Weir and How Sardar Patel’s 182-metre Statue of Unity seems set to come up at an ecological cost courtesy the weir that will be built to sustain the man-made lake around it 22 ESSAY Rahul Pandita 24 DALITS IN THE US Caste Sans Frontieres 28 AAM AADMI PARTY The Forever Challenger 36 JUDICIARY A Matter of Impartiality 38 ESSAY Hasan Suroor INTERNATIONAL 44 French Resurrection As France comes to grip with the Charlie Hebdo assassinations, the world debates how one man’s freedom of expression becomes the oppression of another. Also a column by Francois Gautier. 48 SRI LANKA Exit Rajapaksa, Enter Sirisena