Odour, Odour! This Is a Fish Market


Justice Chandrachud, of the Supreme Court recently made the following remark in Court -"Let us not reduce the dialogue in this court to the level of fish market".  In doing so, he followed the example every single school teacher in India. Every school teacher has, at some point of time, compared his/her class to a fish market. 

 Unfortunately, Justice Chandrachud's remarks caught the attention of the fisherfolk community. They have now demanded an apology from him in open court. Thankfully, proceedings in classrooms are not made public. If that were the case, lots of sirs and madams would also have been called upon to explain themselves.

 A fish market is not unique in being a noisy place. Vegetable markets, fruit markets and even Sarojini Nagar are equally, if not more, noisy. Why then, are fish markets singled out by teachers and judges? It is indeed unfair.

 Next time fish markets get too noisy, will the fish sellers be justified in announcing ,"Kindly talk softly and maintain decorum. This is not a Parliament?"

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