"Men are perverted enough to be ashamed of being what they are, animals. Being thinking animals, they should have more sense; but most of them don't. So much the worse for them. To possess the faculty of thought, but not to use it, is a misfortune."
...We were all anxious to find and strengthen identities other than the national. The 'Indian' had become the smallest 'minority' in the country."
~ Subahs C Kashyap
"We all knew that as a people, we were more divided than ever before. Instead of coming together as members of the Indian fraternity, we had become more and more separated from our fellow countrymen, on grounds of narrow religious, linguistic, caste and other loyalties...
Did you know?
A bench of nine judges of the Supreme Court which decides a case by a five-to-four majority can overrule a unanimous decision of seven judges of the Supreme Court.
'The judiciary in India has deteriorated in its standards because such Judges are appointed, as are willing to be "influenced" by lavish parties and whisky bottles'.
~ Justice E.S. Venkataramiah, (1989)
But it was Justice Felix Frankfurter who advised B. N. Rau, Constitutional Adviser to the Constituent Assembly that the Supreme Court of India should convene and sit 'en banc', that 'the highest court of appeal in the land should not sit in divisions.'
"If the jurisprudence of the first three decades of the Court was defined by a struggle for custody of India's Constitution, the politics of the next three decades were delineated by a tussle for custody of the Court's composition."
~ Abhinav Chandrachud
A tale from 2008
I remembered reading somewhere, a long time ago, that Netaji's ashes were kept at some temple in Tokyo. @ArunKrishnan_ and I wanted to visit that place to pay our respects.
Tokyo isn't exactly down the road from this neck of the woods.
Hey @GooglePay I feel cheated. Did a transaction on 23rd July and money hasn't reached the destination yet. And your support system is a joke. All they do it to tell me to wait for 7 days.
Resolve my issue or be ready to face legal consequences. @GooglePayIndia