Sirs, I fully understand the nuance and implied implication of the proverb, that the ‘Truth is always bitter and intolerable’ and I have suffered its consequences immensely. But my passionate rendezvous with the ‘Truth’, always determinedly encourages me to be more and more audacious with the truth, embedded with the truthful living, aside its cost or consequences.

WASHINGTON: Raj Thakur is stressed, anxious and, above all, angry. A Seattle-based IT engineer, Thakur was among the 18,000 employees Amazon laid off in what has been the largest single-shot cut by any company since Meta set off off the continuing spate of firings with 11,000 in November 2022.

While sending a very strict, loud and clear message to all the judicial officers, the Kerala High Court as recently as on December 23, 2022 in a learned, laudable, landmark, logical and latest judgment titled Mohammed Nazer M.P. & Ors. vs Union Territory of Lakshadweep & Ors. in OP(Crl.) Nos. 608 and 609 of 2022 in Crime No.6/2015 of Agathi Police Station, Lakshadweep against the order/judgment in CC 24/2016 of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Amini, Lakshadweep and cited in 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 667 has held most elegantly, eloquently and effectively that, “Even if a person is occupying the post of Magistrate or Judge, the law of the land is applicable to all.