[Excerpt from Kalyanikkutty Amma’s autobiography, Pathikayum Vazhiyorathe Manideepangalum, in which she writes about her travels in Europe in the mid-1930s. She had, in the 1930s, written an account, in English and Malayalam, on this trip, as part of a women’s delegation invited by the International Student Service, called ‘A Peep at Europe’ in English and Njaan Kanda Europe, in Malayalam. In her autobiography, some chapters of this book have been included. I have translated the Malayalam version.]
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The Autobiography of Anna Chandy: Part 3 Continued
I was given charge of the Criminal Bench in recognition of my experience of conducting criminal cases as a lawyer and a Sessions Judge. In that area, my principle was of justice tempered with mercy. If a mother’s heart did make itself present in the judgments of the woman judge that is neither surprising nor a cause of complaint. Modern thinking about punishment and the aims of punishment stress the need to convince the wrongdoer of the seriousness of his crime. And that also means, offering a chance to live a life without repeating the crime, of course.
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