It was a
historic sight: Four senior judges of the Supreme Court, two of whom are future
chief justices, surrounded by a gaggle of journalists firing away. Outside the
pulpit of their courtrooms, without their black robes, and on the other side of
an interrogation, the judges looked oddly vulnerable, and ill-prepared to deal
with the media. On January 12 justices J. Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B.
Lokur and Kurien Joseph “discharged their debt to the nation”, and pre-empted
“wise