Pairokar

    The more we get aged, the more diffident we become in adopting the new technology or anything new because our mental blocks often come into the play. This is what we find in the functioning of the courts as most of the judges and the lawyers have been pursuing a set pattern of filing, removing defects, appearing, and arguing before the courts. Most of us have become habitual of the system that has been in the vogue for decades together. Judges have also followed the same trend year after year. This is the reason that most of the aged and comparatively old judges usually pose mental resistance in adopting the new technology. The same is the case with the elderly lawyers, court staffs and the persons manning the registry.     Although the introduction of modern technology in the courts have started for quite a long time it has not got expected result and speed until very late. We have been hearing about the paperless courts but to the best of our knowledge, only a few of the judges o

    Pandit Arjun Prasad Bastola, a Sanskrit and Vedic scholar, who is also on the Board of Pashupatinath temple is a well-wisher of India. He once told me that relationship between India and Nepal is like warp and woof from time immemorial and that cannot be separated. Two of the most sacred shrines, Pashupatinath and Vaikunthdham are situated in Nepal, and every Hindu nurse desire to visit those places. Nepal has its presence in almost all important religious places of India. Nepali temple of Varanasi is one of the important religious/tourist places in North India. Millions of Nepalese live in India and lakhs of Indians live in Nepal. They have far and wide business interests. Thousands of Indians and Nepalese have their relatives on both sides of the border. There is no language problem of communication between the two countries. So much so, Hindi and Nepali both are written in the same Devnagari script. Buddhism has more deep and pervasive effect in Nepal than that of India, 

    It will not be an exaggeration to say that the way the problems of migrant workers and the students scattered in many parts of the country have been handled by Yogi the Aditynath government of Uttar Pradesh deserve kudos. Uttar Pradesh happens to be the passage of the migrant workers of other states, therefore, it had to bear major brunt than other states. Remember the crowd of migrant workers, which was made to assemble at Anand Vihar Bus Terminal only a few days after the first lockdown. Most of them were from Delhi. Thus, it was the primary responsibility of the government of Delhi to have taken care of them but instead of that, the buses of DTC were arranged to ferry them to Anand Vihar Bus Station. Yogi government did the splendid job by arranging hundreds of buses to take them to their native places in Uttar Pradesh and those who belonged to Bihar and Jharkhand were dropped at the border. State governments were requested to take them to their respective places.     Ther

     Corona pandemic has brought a piece of welcome news for lawyers and judges. The Hon'ble Supreme Court of India has dispensed with, albeit temporarily, from the pain of wearing an unwieldy gown and black coat. The Delhi High Court has been giving relaxation from wearing a gown for some months every year for the last so many years, but the Supreme Court has never been generous and liberal in easing the dress code. As a matter of fact, the gowns are totally alien and unsuitable for Indian climate. Black coats should be made mandatory only during the winter season. This decision has been spurred due to the fear of the infection of the Coronavirus but even then, it is a welcome step of the Supreme Court and must be adhered to for all time to come.     Black coat and gown is a colonial hangover and it should have been discarded long back but why the Bar Council of India, a representative and elective body of the lawyers thought it fit to retain this dress code is inexplicable. A f

    Watching the unmanageable crowd outside the liquor shops is highly distressing in the Corona times. Even a layman would agree that the government should not have allowed the liquor and wine shops to be opened at a time when the war against Corona is in  full  swing. God forbid if the booze crowd becomes the super spreader of the virus then one shudders to think of the consequences. The entire exercise of the lockdown will be tossed in the air and everything will come to nought.     This is for the first time in the known history of humankind that any pandemic has enveloped the entire world. Even countries with very sound economies are puffing and panting and have not been able to contain the virus as successfully as India has done.  From that standpoint, India has certainly done remarkably well to flatten the curb of Coronavirus. While in any other country the people would have chastised those, who claimed that virus could not harm because Allah was with them. Such persons shou

   Today one young man, who was standing ahead of me at the ‘Safal’, which is the  retail network of fruits and vegetables in Delhi appeared to be in forlorn mood.  I overheard him talking to his friend on the other end of his cellphone that ‘ love’ and ‘dating’ have become the biggest casualty in the Corona times because of Parks, Hotels, Restaurants,  Schools, Colleges, most of the offices and other public places are closed. This appears to be a genuine cause of huge concern of the young boys and girls. Marriages, birthdays and anniversary-celebrations look like things of the past. There is every possibility that post-Corona life will not remain the same as it used to be before Corona. Distancing is going to be an acceptable norm. This will have both positive and negative effects.      Many famous books have been written on the epidemics and their fallouts on society. For example, the Nobel Prize winner Latin American journalist turned writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote a beaut