People often blame media for media trial. The origin of trial begins with our own fragmentary thoughts which anxiously blame others or at least like to avoid our own responsibility. Every socio-political, legal or religious institution is the mirror of what people think or like to do. Medium can't be blamed. The first change may be brought by our own conviction for the honesty, truth, and justice. The process of blaming is often underestimated. It is, in fact, a germinal base for avoiding the questions and its answers. Trial is essentially rooted in our culture. One likes to judge and this process doesn't start with self. It is often pursued to avoid or rather hide our own truth. We know not for the sake of extracting truth from falsehood; in fact, every limitation, dissection of truth-false dichotomy is the first step to efface the totality of truth. In modern paradigm, truth is not discovered rather invented and re-invented. There can't be a truth which is wishful or fancy. Trial is, in a way, within us, lives its reality in our ready-to-blame thoughts. The moment, egocentric thoughts are shattered, the evil of becoming happy out of someone's pain will wither away. I mean, how can someone be happy in his or her own trial? Humanity has been on trial since the very origin and growth of society. And it is living its moments again and again in our sense of offence and offenders. Offender or offence is not an effect of law or morality. It thrives in us in our own thoughts of guilt. And we punish no other but own self. We the humanity are the origin of all the possible miseries. We can't be like waters, flowing, without having any shame or guilt to defend, towards its destination. We are, in fact, not fond of truth. We like to hide our own face in a wishful story, which becomes the spectacle, a simulacra of existence. Simulacra is not a fiction. We are the simulacra of existence. Why don't we investigate who we are? A form, a body, a name, a religion, a nation, a species, or what? Do we blame others or in that very process aren't we hiding our own truth?
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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