Pairokar

The legend goes that Dharmaraj Yudhisthir told Yaksha that the greatest wonder is that whosoever is born will have to die but nobody wants to believe it. The five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court recently delivered a judgment, laden with philosophical conundrums, ethical values, and legal scopes. Many a time it is the same life that becomes burdensome for the person, who is face to face with inevitable death, and also for his/her family members. This judgment has now given the right to people to die with dignity and can write a ‘Will’ of death, saying that if he/she is in the coma or vegetative state, the plugs of life may be pulled off. The poet Alfred Tennyson has said that ‘ no life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death.’ But this perception is not always the same at every stage. There comes a phase in life when the spring of life is frozen, the rain of circulation becomes dry, the movement of body becomes motionless, the rainbow of l...

In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court of India has declared that farmers’ loan would not be covered by Banking Regulation Act. This will give huge relief to the farmers as they have been committing suicides in frustration and heavy indebtedness. The verdict of the bench of Justice R.F. Nariman and Navin Sinha has been written with empathy and pathos. Hardly, a day passes when a farmer does not commit suicide in one part of the company or other. The importance of agriculture in the social and economic fabric of India can be realized from the fact that the livelihoods of the majority of the country’s population is still agriculture. However, over the years agriculture has become so unremunerative that nobody wants to remain in this profession. But then there is no way out for a large number of people engaged in it. As a result, small and marginal farmers have been forced in the vicious web of loans and debts. The desolation and hopelessness of farmers can be gauged fr...