Desire is usually understood as a psychic phenomenon, produced by individual. In modern period, desire is produced like any other goods, which have innumerable buyers and sellers. It's like American dreams, which are bought and sold in spite of the fact that they have larger social and psychic implications. "Desire production" (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1972) is a deleuzean construct, who visualised the "production mentality" from the perspective of desire, which is not a psychic-lack in Freudian sense rather it is a socially produced material, having commercial value in the terrain of market. Like Buddha visualised mind as a social construct, which has no substratum of its own, likewise desire as an individual's fantasy is unreal without territorializing it in context of society and social production. The terrain of market alongwith financial institutions flourish as an imaginary world produced by society, which is inculcated by individual in his fantastic desires. What is away from the market in our world if desire is the basic good it deals with? Desire is as social as individual, as political as egoistic; its luminous value in a globalising world is too appealing to ignore by any ordinary mind. The outgrowing dimensions of consumerism are not unrelated to the fantastic world of desires. Advertisement agencies are those master creators of desire, who play with the vulnerabilities of human's mind. Desire as a social construct is easily accessible in an algorithmic pattern of digital life, whereas news are sold as narratives in the benefits of few at the cost of making a passive bunch of minds, living a life of helplessness and powerlessness (Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News, 2020). The root cause of desire is as internal as external. The moment one observes its roots, the edifice of phantoms no longer exists.
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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