Personification of justice, a liberal paradise, which massacred mythical shades of diversified takes on justice. There are many inter-personal systems of law and rituals which emerged for its death. Obviously, when a society values fluctuations in the name of rule; exception becomes the guiding light of its rule. Modernity was not a curse of repetition, in fact, it was a rupture against all the unique continuity. It was the beginning to have the permanence of ideology. Market as an invisible hand cultivated human consciousness of each being. Economization of law made it a mere technology of governance rather than a means to achieve the higher sacred goal. Linguistic jargon and its quantification became the sole aim of legislature, executive, and of course, judiciary. The formalisation of law and justice stripped itself from their ethical contents; the rationality of universal category of justice, and sets of law, with a common feature that a good hierarchical structure, like bureaucracy functions. Instead of promoting accessibility, market ethics took the situation into their control.
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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