The defendant may be free, but we remain captive to a binary discourse of accusation and counter-accusation, of grievance and counter-grievance, of victims and victimizers.
As for those who are opposed to the formation of a separate Telangana state (on a side note, the Facebook page for a united Andhra Pradesh has around 20,000 members), there are numerous concerns and counter-grievances.
As Bernie Sanders has shown in the US, anti-corruption and campaign finance reform are powerful issues for countering the grievances wielded by populists like Trump.
"Indeed they have been overtaken as a source of grievance by aspects of the Prevent strategy to counter extremism".
In a Tuesday op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, the president wrote, "Efforts to counter violent extremism will only succeed if citizens can address legitimate grievances through the democratic process and express themselves through strong civil societies".
This does not counter the manipulative interpretation of Islam being used by extremists to play upon grievances held by some Muslims.
"The false narrative of grievance, and the perverted ideology of Isis, need to be robustly countered by all right-thinking people.
It's the perfect counter to the old narrative that threatens us today, the narrative based on corruption, grievances, ignorance, fear, economic injustice and bad leadership.
Engineers have a grievance.
(The Hindu) Seeking to counter Anna Hazare's battle against corruption, the government plans to introduce a bill in Parliament in the winter session that will give citizens the right to demand redressal of their grievances against government departments.
Their grievance remains private, necessarily.
