Shekhar Gupta: Judge thyself too, Your Lordships

The judiciary is under threat from within - from stretching jurisdictions, headline-hunting and its inability to put its own house in order

Basu Bhattacharya’s 1971 film Anubhav, the first in his trilogy on marital discord, features Sanjeev Kumar as a workaholic editor and Tanuja as his lonely wife. After all is dusted and done through two-and-a-half intense hours, with Dinesh Thakur completing the triangle of tension, comes a dramatic final exchange between the couple.
 

“You write editorials each day for everybody else’s problems. Will you write one for ours too?” Tanuja (ok, millennial, Kajol’s mom) asks Sanjeev Kumar.

Picture your eminent Supreme Court judges in a similar situation. This week saw them deliver a judgment of rare clarity, and bombast-free passion. Throwing