Last fortnight, a sea of white shirts and black coats could be seen marching from the Supreme Court to Jantar Mantar in the national capital. Lawyers, who are otherwise drilled to be apolitical, neutral, and go only by the letter of the law, were raging on the streets. 

These never-before-seen visuals — of lawyers mobilising on such a large scale — were sparked by one cause: the quashing of the fundamental rights of peaceful protestors during the recent anti-CEC stir.