Poetry

'A Grand Event'

Note: An additional Circuit Bench of the Bombay High Court is being inaugurated today (17th August,2025) at Kolhapur. It will commence judicial work from tomorrow (18th August,2025). This poem is a poetic comment commemorating this event.

The Kolhapur Bench has
Materialized so very fast
Forget the legal niceties
We just hope this will last

A Principal Bench's arrears
Are now Circuit's inheritance
Celebrations going overboard
Make more noise than sense

Number crunchers rejoice
This time no one opposed
With a single stroke of pen
Arrears are shown "disposed"!

For Circuit City this indeed is
Occasion for a "Grand Event"
It's businesses are booming
Starting with spiralling rent

Appellate Side Bar rooms
Are now so pleasant to view
Comfortable and spacious
As they were in Covid Curfew

The thing that won't change
Is the suffering litigants fate
Those who waited in Mumbai
In Kolhapur will have to wait..