Synopsis: How, and on what basis, might we piece together memories that render the Constitution ‘workable’, ‘flexible’ and ‘strong’ enough to resist the ‘vileness’—in ways that its preambular iridescence lights up pathways to ‘hold the country together’ at a time when dominant political discourse reduces and degrades politics to the fractured banality of shards.
It is with a deep sense of regret and grief that I read the news of an advocate hurling a slipper at the Chief Justice of India in Court 1 of the Supreme Court of India.
The entire legal sororal fraternity owes an apology to Chief Justice BR Gavai for allowing things to come to such a pass. It is about Justice Gavai and our moral, ethical and constitutional responsibility to protect the dignity of his person and the office h