Partition
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- ...What am I saying? Am I actually saying that the Constitution has permanently fixed the cartographic limits of this territory?
- Why not actually? The Constitution is our normative aspiration. It, so eloquently, alters and improves the social, political and economic lives of its people. So why not say Constitution determines the land. We are after all, finally, a constitutional democracy
- Is it the case, then, that the Constitution embodies itself in the land?
- And then they said that I am not thinking like a judge, that I am talking nonsense, that I have lost the power of legal reasoning, that I am not being rational, that I have become insane.
- So don't say you don't have a choice as a judge... You do. How will you deal with the trauma? The repressions?
- Ok... so?
- Look at Article 343, look at how the citizenship laws have been interpreted, look at the desire for a strong center. Are all these not affects of the Partition? More importantly, your rush to say the Constitution has fixed the boundary, is it not emanating from the trauma of separation?
- What do you mean affected? And will continue to affect?
- And Partition? Even if, say, Partition did affect the Constitution's drafters, what's there in that? How can you say we will repeat the same thing? That is left to future judges. Are you accusing the judiciary?
- Whoever you are, you have no idea about our constitution. It is one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. We have equality, liberty, fraternity, freedom of thought. What rubbish are you talking about?
- Show yourself, coward
- What a weird experience. Must be some eavesdropping lawyer... Constitution has repressed the partition. What rubbish... Absolute rubbish... Such utter rubbish... I'll go back to writing my judgment... Partition, I mean...
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