Every discourse ends in absurdity. Every statement either over-signifies or under-signifies.Every knowledge is raw and amateur. The living truth is ineffable. It cannot be conceptualised or comprehended in the imagery of signifier or signified. Yet, discursive pleasure is unparalleled for a devotee who doesn't have insight to the most sacred as well as the most profane truth. Under the surface of imagery, beneath the tide of the ocean, in the flowing river, beside the silence of trees, in the glorious height of mountains, in the sublime beauty of the Moon, and around the twinkling of starts, the reality is blossoming, appearing, disappearing, and reappearing. The playfulness of life is mysteriously weaving every thread, recycling every drop of water, and dramatizing the vibrance of microcosmic and macrocosmic experiences. Discourses are too ephemeral though the most desired option to express the ineffable experience of life.
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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