Culpable insouciance and turpitudinous procrastinations - besetting sin of Indian Judiciary - Erudite brevity is better than shallow prolixity

Apart from Justice VR Krishan Iyer's contribution to imposition of emergency,his judgment in BWSSB v. A.Rajappa in 1978 brought even charitable organisations and hospitals under the definition of "industry" under the ID Act, thereby throttling all charitable developments in India for next two decades, until the Apex Court diluted this judgment in Kerala Coir Board case. Of course, his judgments and public writings lead to increased sale of English dictionaries. The syntactical rules of English language also suffered much in his hands. Language became a tool of exhibitionism rather than a vehicle for thoughts.

Gururaj B N 05/12/2014