The element of surprise and surprising elements of a subject lies in its dislocation from cultural moor, and of course, this transition has its beginning with the consciousness, dies once the habit of dailyness makes the transition complete. Subject's being and becoming ought not to be located through actions of past and present, but her surplus mysteriously makes it open; the scope of becoming remains in transition, remains open for some unimaginable possibilities. The painful coiling amidst cacophonies of merit and competition opens the door to look beyond what has been established as stable. Life deserves its name in its surplus enjoyment, not in its structure, but of its contents in transion. Ego is not a multiplicity of full stops, it must be a transition of commas! For no competition of merit can create any trans-mutative pleasure more than inertia and the death of transformative imaginations. Remembering Rola Barthes I can acclaim that my text is writerly than readerly. The anxiety of ungraspability is of course annoying but this is how a surplus of enjoyment is in making.
Aristotle once wrote in his Nicomachean Ethics that there are four significant virtues for human beings, namely Prudence, Temperance, Justice, and Courage. There are a few judges who have courage and sense of justice, both. Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rohinton Nariman has been truly an exemplar judge and erudite historian, theologian and philologist, a great scholar of music as well as a courageous and meticulous jurist of our country. He did his Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1980-81 and taught by one of the finest jurists of the last century, Roberto Unger. He became Senior Advocate in 1993 in the age of 37 and also served as Solicitor General of India in 2011 before he was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India in 2014. He delivered many landmark judgments, including Shreya Singhal v. Union of India. There are a few people with whom time moves too fast, but to count that experience takes ages. Justice Rohinton Nariman is one of those great jurists with whom a meet...
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