Mark Twain said “a lie can travel halfway around the world, while the truth is putting on its shoes.” What has been happening in the High Court of Madras in the recent past is ample proof of this.

After several days of agitation, boycott of courts, and shouting of slogans both in the corridors and inside the court halls, the representatives of some associations of lawyers and a group of men who were actually leading them summarised in two simple sentences to the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court what actually was their demand.

These two sentences were: (a) that in the list of names that could be recommended henceforth for appointment to the post of High Court Judges, there shall be no one from the Brahmin, Mudaliar, Gounder and Pillai communities; and (b) that persons belonging to communities hitherto unrepresented should alone be recommended hereafter for appointment to the post of High Court Judges...........Read more

Source web page: The Hindu