Days of Judgement

Chidambaram may go on trial in legal court, but the Congress-led government is also being publicly tried through an ebb and flow of daily evidence and argument. Politicians fear the law, as indeed they should. But what truly terrifies them is the great hall of justice known as the court of public opinion. A court trial may be no more than an occupational hazard; the law, moreover, is known to take its own course, particularly when like an ass it defeats its own purpose through delay.

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