Up Till Now

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Description
In a generous mood and a gracious spirit Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh when I met him a couple of months ago called me as I was leaving his official office "Rajarishi", too pompous for a name for humble me. He knows me in and out as a critic and as a statesman. So I accept this noble description of me as coming from a finer spirit overlooking my blemishes and sharp criticisms of his policies and Government. In that sense the book consists of the writings drawn up during dawn before I go for my morning walk. The reader will forgive me my fobbing of on him. Ramping and writing has a serious work which it is not. They are some sombre pieces but also pages of levity. But they are of candid. Written in the vein of crippling advice to his son I am no pretender to great writings or classic judgments although I have over 724 judgments to my credit from the Supreme Court of India and some of them have turned out to be classics. But what is in this book is purile not solemn wordings nevertheless some of them
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Table of Contents
PART I
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• A Chronic Violation of Propriety
· A Prefatory Note
• Counterfeit Meet
• Dotage and Anecdotage
• First Things First
• From the Annamalai to Chennai
• Gentle Birds, Lovely Doves, Compassion towards Living Creatures with Felicity and Fine Feathers Charming Wings
• Last Page
• Law Reform Commission-Some Second Thoughts
• Life at the Bar
• Life is Never Still-But Change must be for well-being of Humanity My Date of Birth-A Slight Difference
• My Home, My Castle, Now Bishop's Palace
• Naïve President and Extravagent Reception
• Obscurantism in Our Materialistic Superstitions
• Picasso and the Doves for Peace Paradigm
• Pilgrimage to Mount Abu
• Quilandy
• Scattered Fragments of Autobiography
• The Evening of Life
• The Song of Divine Life
• The Vicissitudes and Winding-up of My Story Re-told at Sunset
• Three Day Adventure
• Trinity of Events
• What a Busy Day on a Holiday
• My Judgments
• Happy New Year or Om Namha Sivaya
• He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last
• Humanism at Early Dawn
• Night is Lowliest Yesterday RE
• The Majestic Magnificent Princely Pachyderm and an Advaitic Vision of Creation
• Tomorrow Never Comes, Yesterday Never Returns
• Tremendous Trifles and Grave Issues
• Womanhood-Unjustly, Unequal, Socially, Economically, Culturally, Political
• A Dwindled Family
PART II ANECDOTES AND DAILY MEMORIES
• Introductory
• Democracy, Illiteracy and Corruption at Everest Level
• Development without Water Technology is Vanity without Nature Harnest to Science and Technology
• One More Anecdotage in My Dotage
• Doves of Peace Flying to Worshipful Humanity
• Is the Indian Political Structure Still a Colonial Creature
• Indian Muslims and Secular Patriotism
• Nuclear Effects
• Professors, Legislators and a Little Knowledge
• Taliban Treachery and Indian Ubiquity
• Wealth a Trust to Distribute to Illth so as to Promote National Social Justice
• Indo-Pak Peace a Sine Qua Non of Cordial Comity of Nations in Asia
• A Brief Introduction to My Autobiography by Justice Michael Kirby
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Author Details
Justice V R Krishna Iyer