Oh boy, the Supreme Court has really been at it the last fortnight. Decisions, ordinances, declarations, decrees, things that have been in our Constitution, our consciousness for years, boom, knocked down, null and void.

Started with triple talaq, then LGBT, but this last week, suddenly the many M'lords went into overdrive. Their gavels became sledgehammers. Aadhaar, adultery, women allowed into Sabarimala temple, Nana Patekar arrested for sexual comments against Tanushree Dutta; Okay, strike the last one. All the remaining overturned, amended, made more powerful.