Environmental Jurisprudence I

Posted on by Rudrajyoti Nath Ray

Estragon:  Let’s go.

Vladimir: We can’t.

Estragon: Why not?

Vladimir: We’re waiting for Godot.

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, 1954.

Let us now hark back to Waiting for Godot… with which, we started.

National Green Tribunal must act, if exigencies so demand, without indefinitely waiting for metaphorical Godot to knock on its portal. NGT is vested with suo motu power.

– Hon’ble Justice Hrishikesh Roy, Muncipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai v. Ankita Sinha, [Civil Appeal Nos. 12122-12123 of 2018].

WfG

'The Last Word' seeks to include not only wise and witty sayings but also curiosities. These words are not of obligation but of delight. I am not alone in my refusal to believe, law is tedious. For all who escaped these percipient eyes, mea culpa maxima. History, after all, has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.