Is there a possibility to detach from what is given, as history exposes or cultural norms shape our identity? Is there a possibility to discover something which is not cultivated in a projection of history and present? Do we immerse in cultural moorings so as to forget who we are? Or all real are cultural, cultivated, earned here and now? Possibility is always a process of radical shift from its initial embeddiness or possibility is what is possible to actualize? These are the questions which remain there at its place. Because, some questions are invaluably unquenchable enough to be answered. Simple and fundamental questions remain alive, its fundamental characteristics make it impossible to actualize. Like death which remains a question for one who anticipates to die but never experience the "status of nothingness". For Sartre death is not real, not experienced by self. It is merely a possibility which never gets actualized in experience. Analogously some questions remain alive and beautiful as ever, though every quest of solving it is a never ending task of consciousness. This is what we know as a live spirit which create some meaning for existence, however it has nothing to do with the meaning.
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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