Yes, we are all concerned about survival. Survival for whom from what? Survival for the human's species from a virus, which seems to be too subtle but lethal to outsmart human's self-glorified intelligence. We often belive about ourself as the highest intelligence ever evolved on the planet with a unique capacity to imagine and transcend beyond the limited dimension of time and space. But when it comes to a crisis like this our response seems to be orthodox, presumptuous, uncontrollable, and outdated. We the human species are the self-proclaimed prophets of progress and rationality. We are, in fact, too selfish to see and experience the life beyond a human's skin. Earth, for us, is not a beautiful garden for aesthetic of existence, rather it is a place for opportunities to get enmeshed in bafflement of narcissistic dreams and aspirations. Life for us is not about feeling its fragrance in totality but a challenge to conquer extrapolated enemies. Death is feared by us even though we know it's real, possibly time is a luxury which cannot be bought by symbolic value, known as money. But do we care about the death of many insects, plants, animals, rivers, and the Earth itself? We care for our own survival. It is truth. Isn't it? Our anthropocentric imagination since the dawn of human's life has alienated our existence from its environment. We don't feel even breathing forget about sensitivity towards plants and animals. We don't want to feel life, its extraordinary vibrations and suffering. We are escapist animal, who can imagine a world beyond Earth and afterlife but remains unhappy with the moments passing without any control. Do we control anything? Our breathing, seeing, listening, feeling, etc? If not, what do we expect to control? Life is a drama, a game, whose rules are barely known by human's intelligence. But here we are the highest intelligence, admired by God for our capacity to invent him and subjected from the hatred of evil! Are we really serious about our intellect to control Earth and its environment?
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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