As amicus curiae

Fali S Nariman  says, "Judges of the highest court who have powers to life and death over us citizens, judges who can (and do) send people to jail for contempt of its order must - I repeat must - show that they too are amenable to good practice."  

"That is how they earn the respect of us commoners. We in India learn by example - never by precept. For judges of the highest court to litigate as to whether or not they should disclose their assets is as bad as judges going to the court on whether it was lawful for income tax to be deducted from the salaries they get! We have good judges, but we need more judicial wisdom." 

Best minds gravitated

Best minds yet to come in new India!

According to B S Raghavan “A census taken in the late 1990s revealed that of the 468 law colleges existing in the country then, teacher per institution average was 2.38 which is less than half of even the feeble five full-time teacher per institution prescribed by the Bar Council. As regards the quality of teaching, the less said the better”.

A Self regulating human community

A Self regulating human community

There are few interesting quotes from “The Way Out of This Mess Is the Way of Mahatma Gandhi” by Jeff Knaebel. The article is one in itself to direct younger generation to learn to live.

“Liberty is the absence of coercion of a human being by any other human being. To have liberty means to be free without modification or qualification so far as social relationships are concerned. This is apparent when you consider the alternatives for any one social act. There are two possibilities: (1) you determine what you shall do; (2) you are prohibited from determining what you shall do. The second means that some other person or persons will decide what you shall do, and force you to do it. This defines slavery rather than liberty”.

Stop trying to control.
Let go of fixed plans and concepts,
and the world will govern itself.
The more prohibitions you have,
the less virtuous people will be.
The more weapons you have,
the less secure people will be.
The more subsidies you have
the less self-reliant people will be.
Let go of the law,
and people become honest.
Let go of economics,
and people become prosperous.
Let go of religion,
and people become serene.
Let go of all desire for the common good,
and the good becomes common as grass.

~ Tao Te Ching

“Edmund Burke said in 1756, as did Gandhi in our time, "Happiness in the long run rests on truth alone, and that truth is the natural law of human activity and human relations.”

“He goes on to say that States violate the Law of Nature. In a nearly perfect match of the earlier quote of Gandhi, he says that injustice is grounded in the very nature of the State itself, because the State is necessarily supported by violence.

"To prove that these sorts of political societies are a violation of nature and a constraint upon the human mind, one need only look upon the instruments of violence which are everywhere used to support them. Review the dungeons, whips, chains, racks, gibbets with which every society is abundantly stored …. I acknowledge indeed, the necessity of such a proceeding in such institutions; but I must have a very mean opinion of institutions where such proceedings are necessary." (Works, 1900)”.