A Judge’s Horizon

The versatile personality of the author finds reflection in this little ‘bunch called BOOK’—as the author himself calls it. Whether it is sangeet or social work or social justice, costs or crimes or com­munalism, or corporate sector, religions and revolution—the author has some­thing to say, some thought to exchange with others. His protem office, as the author characterizes it, clothes his views with considerable importance. It is, as the Preface hastens to point out, a book fabricated out of widely dispersed studies, prepared in different moods, meant for different gatherings, and reflecting differ­ent times and circumstances. We have been taught to believe that judges live in cloistered hearths, insulated from mankind and the rest of the world. They only know the written law as has been and as is. They are not supposed to—whether they have or not is immate­rial—have any thoughts upon such varied subjects as have interested Krishna Iyer in this collection and even if they have, they were not supposed to give expression to them during their office, but were supposed to write about them in their memoirs after their retirement.