NATIONAL JUDICIAL ACADEMY Justice A. P. Sahi Director Ref. No.: NJA/Dir./Gen./2021/ Dated: 16th December, 2021 Dear Mr. Vijayaraghavan, Thank you for having given the opportunity to cherish one of your latest contributions “Cou

NATIONAL JUDICIAL ACADEMY

Justice A. P. Sahi

Director

Ref. No.: NJA/Dir./Gen./2021/

Dated: 16^th December, 2021

Dear Mr. Vijayaraghavan,

Thank you for having given the opportunity to cherish one of your latest contributions “Court Room Humour”. The talent to subtly awaken thrill and ignite a sleepy routine mind with a mental fodder that melts daily stresses and dilutes negativity, is what a humorist partly, but genuinely to a great extent, contributes to human life. The narration and the presentation of your book is one of the best that deserves a place on the shelf alongwith Marc Galanter, Peter Hay, and the like.

The mental rebellions expressed vigourously and lucidly in the anecdotes extracted also at times reflect razor sharp spontaneity and the display of unconscious humour. The existence of inconsistencies in principled consistency exhibits the likeness of things that are different and difference of things that are alike. This unique variety from the prism of a powerful pen paints a rainbow that adds to our pursuit of happy moments, inside and outside courts. These moments describe the paradoxes of life that is salt to food. It is like delight to a failing sight, untiring and refreshing. The mind instantly goes exploring the cozy hidden half-truths that get unfolded within a split second and stand strongly embedded in memory.

It is wit and humour which essentially distinguishes humans as superior homosapiens as it is them who possess it naturally. This was somewhat described by Swift as

Humour is odd, grotesque, and wild, Only by affectation spoiled;

‘Tis never by invention got;

Men have it when they know it not.

A read of such books quenches the thirst of the intellect that is watered and refreshed. our inquisitive mind, that keeps searching for answers to many mysteries and riddles, gets a spark from within and you suddenly feel enjoyably free. The lighter moments in a disciplined atmosphere, like a court room, attracts and soothens the cognitive skills possessed by a law professional who does not need any better platform to keep himself amused.

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Your work on refined humour will certainly be well received and will never decay. To describe it as immortal would be reducing its unfathomable achievement. Those of the legal fraternity who will be fortunate enough to read and enjoy an author like you, not a mere compiler, no wonder could be heard reciting this prayer that is engraved and preserved in the 10^th century old Chester Cathedral in England:

Give me a sense ofhumour, Lord,

Give me the grace to see a joke, To get some happiness from life And pass it on to other folk.

I hope readers and your fans like me in particular would be benefited by some more profitable publications with your letter head boldly announcing “To Whomsoever it may Concern.”

With best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

(Justice A.P. Sahi)

Mr. N. Vijayaraghavan

Advocate

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