We’re Fishing Out a Thesaurus to Read SC’s Sasikala Supplement...

Whilst you check the sun-dial for the next medieval fair, we’ll try our hand at decoding these old-world phrases.

So, here’s what we know…

Sasikala’s political aspirations came to an abrupt halt a couple of days ago when the Supreme Court convicted her in the long-standing disproportionate assets case. While she faces a prison sentence of three and a half years, she can also only contest elections six years after she completes her sentence.

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Now, that’s the judgement. In all its 570 pages of glory and resonance. It’s a judgement that’s been read, analysed and over-analysed by proponents and dissidents alike – and we’ll leave it at that.

But, here’s the little to-do that’s enough to make my old English professor jump hoops for Hamlet and leave Shakespeare-shaped holes in the wall.

The judgement concludes with a ‘supplement’ – in Justice Amitava Roy’s own words – which seeks to give expression to “a few disquieting thoughts that have lingered and languished in distressed silence”.

Ah, for the love of all things lingual!

Whilst you check the date on the sun-dial for the next medieval fair, we’ll try our hand at decoding these phrases that were last used when ‘bae’ was still followed by ‘of Bengal’.