Father, we have sinned.For you,.The preambular values and Article 21 have been binned..As a society, we take selective outrage.A journalist, yes.Yet, denial of a sipper and straw is not met with enough umbrage..Your case may be under the UAPA, with the NIA prosecuting.I say!.Does that justify such a denuding?.Delay defeats justice.Is known to all alike.But for you, the judiciary is cold as ice..A humanitarian request is not entertained.For want of.A reply to your plaint..I am instantly reminded of a picture.Adorning the High Court at Panaji.Depicting a chain around legal scriptures..With anguish, I propose one addition.Nay, an amendment.Clarifying that in our legal system, there's no place for your kind of petition..Does no one understand – the only lock that a straw can pick.Is what unshackles.A monster who makes our Constitution and conscience sick..If this is the way we treat our octogenarians,.I ask myself,.Is there any place for my generation?.However, be rest assured that your struggle for a sipper and a straw.Will not go down in history,.And equate you to a man of straw..For Father, while we have sinned.In your case,.Only the devil has grinned..(Rohan Deshpande practices as a Counsel in the Bombay High Court and writes on law and current affairs. The views are personal.)
