During the so-called vacations, the judges are sitting till 6 PM, the counsels are still drafting and arguing, and yet the narrative being spread in the public is that the Courts do not work and are always on leave.
In Supreme Court:
(The court is hearing a slum rehabilitation case)
Battery of senior advocates sparring:
Court: we want 15 mins time to have a coffee break. 3:30 we have to deal with a matrimonial matter. We need to charge ourselves! Little while ago we were handling another set of couples. We just managed to save ourselves.
SG Tushar Mehta: coffee may perhaps not be the right beverage.
Court: that’s the only option we have!
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant while giving a date in Suresh Devi vs High Court of Judicature at Allahabad:
"List it after Holi break. No no.. list after that week also.. Allahabad hai bhai.. ek hafta toh lag jayega bhang ka nasha utarne mein"
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A lot of people are pissed off with this report.
I am not. I truly feel that most of our big cities are unliveable. Our local administration is incompetent, unimaginative and corrupt to the core.
It is important to accept the truth. Only then change happens. London, New York , Singapore were all unliveable at some point of time. Every country goes through struggles. Important thing is to direct your angst in the right direction.
So instead of dunking on an obviously partisan BBC, focus on the message. Yes our cities need a massive upgrade and not much has changed in last 11 years in the cities except metro expansion. Sanitation, roads, traffic, lack of law and order and retail corruption have remained pretty much same
Who knew tandoors and firewood were the offenders creating Delhi's pollution all these years? Our daily smog, dust and concrete must be feeling very relieved.
Someone at Sony LIV seems to be under immense revenue pressure & making very stupid short term decisions. 1.5 min of ads (2x15 sec+2x30 sec) after every 3 min is unforgivable. On one occasion they repeated an ad in the same sequence.
This leads to 4 things:
1. Paying customers like me who made the mistake of renewing last month won't next year. Twice now I've given up watching highlights because almost 25% of airtime is ads. Every time you start a stream, you're subjected to 3-4 ads.
2. They'll piss off advertisers who won't return. Seeing the same ad 8 times in 10 minutes creates negative perception for viewers.
3. They're creating grounds for justification of advertising regulation in streaming like there was in TV. At some point in time, MIB will do to online advertising what it did to TV ads.
4. They're making it feasible for Ministry of Health to argue that you can insert anti Tobacco ads in the beginning and middle of a show. This is a mess that Amazon has also created. MoH can argue: if you can do it to make money why can't you put public service ads.
Well done Sony LIV, in screwing over the few people who are actually paying for your service.
I suggest next time the Delhi polls are held during this period, when the pollution in Delhi NCR is at its peak, and see what level of promises the political parties can go to and eventually give nothing to the public.
The situation in Delhi is no less than a Health Emergency.