

We would silently sit there for hours, sometimes joking about how there was complete darkness after law school. We would go there, our small group of best friends, to spend time, often with cigarettes, and sometimes, pocket money permitting, with alcohol. To the right of the college was absolute darkness the Bangalore University campus. To the left of the college were lights of the village, and the well lit airport road. Below it was the highway, and beyond that, our college. A flight of steps in a quaint residential area next to college, from where the entire village of Nagarbhavi could be seen. If I had the fondest memories of a place from college life, it was this. The most depressing part of the trip was perhaps visiting the crag. Anyway, so, was that not homosexuality? What did you think it was? Lawn tennis?


If you say Zoroastrians are not, I insist you try tracing the "Berry Pulao" anywhere else apart from Britannia on Dadabhai Naoroji Street in Bombay. Both Hindus and Zoroastrians are part of India. A Hindu God (Indra) is the Zoroastrian Devil. 'Our' - What do you mean by 'our'? Are you a Hindu? A Muslim? A Zoroastrian? If you say your 'culture' is irrespective of Hindu or Zoroastrian, then you are a liar.

Mitra commenced his submissions in Birla versus Lodha. The man bowed again, and left, and Senior Counsel Mr. "You have no right to be heard", came the Judge's stern voice again. The man, in obvious ignorance of the Latin expression the Courts freely assume and use, stood there, not knowing what he was supposed to do. "If you are not an officer of this Court, you have no locus standi to be heard", the Court observed. The man, who perhaps was not even sure about what an 'officer of the court' was, nodded his head in the negative, with hopeful eyes, as if suggesting that he could argue his case himself, since he anyway knew his plight more than his lawyer did. "Your lawyer hasn't come, is it? Are you an officer of the court?" the Judge asked. I suppose he must have got hold of one of my fellow brothers from the profession to fight his case, since on the next occasion I saw him in court, he again slowly edged in front of the Court and said that his lawyer had not appeared that day, and asked what could be done about it.
