Pairokar

Shri Asok Pandey (Yes, that is how he writes his name), my good friend, is a public-spirited lawyer and he must have filed more than 200 PILs in the Allahabad High Court and the Supreme Court of India. Some of the judgements on his PILs have now become an integral part of the Indian constitutional study.  His tenacity for the cause that he espouses is seen to be believed. Recently, he has filed a PIL for the preponing the of the swearing in of the Chief Justice-designate Ranjan Gogoi on the ground that the post of the Chief Justice of India is in continuum and it cannot remain vacant even for a few hours. The incumbent CJI Dipak Misra is retiring on 2 nd  October, which is a national holiday, being the Gandhi Jayanti. Therefore, the CJI designate will take oath on 3 rd  October leaving a time gap of many hours between the retiring CJI and the new CJI.  The fate of the PIL will be known when it is heard and decided by the Supreme Court but what has impelled me t...

Death is inevitable, but the death of any near and dear ones is always sad and shocking. The death of my younger brother Shrinand, which occurred in the morning of 22 nd  of August has shocked and benumbed me. He was nearly four years younger than me and was the youngest among all brothers. He died young at the age of only 58. He was a carefree person, particularly in his younger days. He remained almost untouched of the worldliness and that was the reason that he hardly got bothered by the damages and difficulties in the worldly life.      He did not possess high academic degrees but due to his self-studies, he developed a good understanding of literature, social values, political ups and downs, changing trends of the society and unfortunate rupturing of the family bonds and relations. He was a good connoisseur of the qualities of others and that was the reason he was loved and respected by young and old, uneducated and highly educated persons alike. He h...