April 21, 2012
It should have been along the lines of the bombastic, gripping, edge-of-the-couch intense court room dramas that pack American television channels. But then the reticent, soft-spoken, rarely speaking MMS is at the helm of affairs. Therefore
The Supreme Court: so we should let the ship go?
Govt Attorney: Yes, Your honor!
TSC: But two Indian citizens have been killed.
GA: In international waters, my Lord.
TSC: They seize to be Indian citizens once they are at sea?
GA: Our citizens are always at sea. Especially when they are on a boat more than 12 nautical miles from the nearest coast.
TSC: Is this the government's stance?
GA: Yes, that Italians are italians.
TSC: Meaning?
GA: Just like how we clarified earlier that gays are gays.
TSC: And Indians are Indians, we presume?
GA: Quite so. Except when they are of Italian origin.
TSC: And the Kerala Police was wrong to detain the Italian marines?
GA: Yes, they have been ordered to repent for 42 days.
TSC: Have the families of the victims been informed?
GA: They can read it in the papers. That's our preferred mode of communication successfully applied even on senior ISRO scientists.
TSC: Indeed. What does the PM say about the matter?
GA: The usual.
TSC: Silence?
GA: Deferred, reverential and thoughtful
TSC: Will it be broken?
GA: Hopefully in 2014.
TSC: Final argument...
GA: "Letting go" is the purest message since the time of Buddha. The armed forces have already been trained in Ahimsa with the supply of substandard equipment.
TSC: But that message was law only during the Mauryan Empire.
GA: Your honor, and the Roman Empire ascended soon after.
TSC: And it has reached the Indian shores?
GA: Precisely. The message should reverberate with the citizens. That they should have no attachment.
TSC: To their own lives?
GA: And property...unless of course, they are of Italian origin.
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