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