““Stick To Selling Sweaters”: When India’s Highest Court Sneers At Ordinary Indians”, reversethegaze.substack.com, March 10, 2026
“The Chief Justice of India recently decided that a 12th‑pass trader who came to court with a PIL needed an English test more than a hearing. The man had used terms like “fiduciary risk” and “constitutional principles” in his petition, which immediately triggered suspicion on the bench that he could not possibly have written it himself. Instead of engaging with the grievance, the court turned the proceedings into a spectacle, demanding that he explain phrases in English and effectively telling him to stick to his business of selling sweaters and leave the task of petitioning the Republic’s highest court to “proper” legal minds.
The message was unmistakable: this court is not for you, unless you are fluent in the rarefied dialect of the colonial club.
A Republic That Still Pleads In The Coloniser’s Tongue
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