What kind of attitude qualifies as learned and learnable? A distanced attitude from the society or becoming a part of societal happenings? What kind of questions are fundamental enough to be accepted as questions? What is trivial about questions? Whether questions are asked by questionable minds or questions are ontologically natural? Why do we question about the quest of questions? What is childish about questions? And which one is a mature one? I find questionable attitude is a sign of progress. And the most difficult questions are childish, but in fact, mature one remains a trivial one. Maturity is nothing but a symptom of habit, which is misunderstood as seriousness and sincerity. Being a child is the sincerest and a vital stage of human development, which needs the urgency of sensitive nurturing, so as to ensure their quest for questions. A sense of wonder, once starts dieing, all sorts of colours of life are reduced into binary. The serious problem is the death of question. Questions are the fundamental building blocks of our progress. And the one who is enamoured in questions are still alive. Those who accept the boredom of daily routine die daily instead of once. And the one who questions the very existence of pre-suppositions, in form of literatures, paintings, and philosophies, is a torchbearer of progress. The 21st century of our world may have achieved all sorts of technological progress, but the foundations of questions are no more. Superstitious believes are kept once and for all as the truth or the very quest of truth is muddled amidst the dark matters of propaganda and mis-informations. In an age in which we are living, the tradition of questions and critical examination are existential in every way.
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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