The judiciary. Personally I agree with Fali Nariman, the Supreme Court’s eminence grise, when he says that the day four senior judges called a press conference was a truly black day. Had they gone public to explain why it takes decades for justice to be done in India even in cases of terrorism, murder and rape, they would have deserved a standing ovation. Instead they chose to go public only to complain about not being allowed to decide which judges should be on which bench, while admitting that this was definitely the Chief Justice’s prerogative. That press conference diminished the Supreme Court but the judges were hailed as shining heroes by the cabal around.