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By Arundhati Roy
25 September, 2007
Outlook India
Scandals can be fun. Especially those that knock preachers from their pulpits and flick halos off saintly heads. But some scandals can be corrosive and more damaging for the scandalised than the scandalee. Right now weâre in the midst of one such.
At its epicentre is Y.K. Sabharwal, former Chief Justice of India, who until recently headed the most powerful institution in this countryâthe Supreme Court. When thereâs a scandal about a former chief justice and his tenure in office, itâs a little difficult to surgically excise the man and spare the institution.
But then commenting adversely on the institution can lead you straight to a prison cell as some of us have learned to our cost. Itâs like having to take the wolf and the chicken and the sack of grain across the river, one by one. The riverâs high and the boatâs leaking. Wish me luck.
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