There is a well worn-out cliché: Justice delayed is justice denied. You ask any common person who has had the experience of having been exposed to the judicial processes. His reaction would be uniformly: The march of justice is slow, costly and sometimes counterproductive. In several cases, when a common man has fought a legal case for years, the outcome often be some kind of a legal justice but not true justice. There is no arguing the well-established impression that in our country the rich, the powerful and the well-connected can always swing justice to their side. This is no reflection on the honourable judges and the courts. But it certainly does not absolve the judicial system and the judicial processes. Judges too are human beings and they are being influenced by popular, and sometimes not just agitations and uproars, the issues of prestige and prejudices, cannot be ruled out. But why blame the judges alone? The judges and the courts too cannot function outside the bounds of the social system. The level of public morality — including the political, economic and social morality — is bound to influence the thinking and judgment process of an individual even if he is an exalted justice.

Where does one begin examining the justice scenario in the country? Why not begin it outside the narrow confines of the courts, the police and the governmental organisations?

Perhaps if we want to begin at the beginning, we have to begin with the individual, the open and sprawling social sector. That would raise issues which might point an accusing finger at you, me and the private institutions and associations which are not strictly within the government’s court. But we must have the courage to face facts if we want to find the truth. And if we do not find the truth, we certainly shall never be able to understand and work for ensuring true justice to ordinary people. Before we accuse others of being unjust we must examine how just we are ourselves in our day-to-day life and in dealing with others. Often we do not realise that simple acts of daily life we go through without ever bothering about why and how we do what we do and in the way we do, are acts of injustice to others. In the end, I had raised the question: Is it not a corrupt practice to divert the attention of the masses from their basic problems of food, shelter, clothing and employment by constantly engaging them in unrelated political, religious, regional and communal issues, which also cost a lot of money?... And to what extent we can put a finger on our own dishonesty and corruption and acts of injustice? We must think and debate these burning issues.

In the same issue we had warned of the danger signals from Kashmir when the violent infiltration of the so-called Jehadi elements from across the border had begun to disrupt peace and tranquility in the valley under the false slogan of "war of liberation".

We had investigated into the futility of the political rallies as a political instrument, taken note of the new turn in Pak politics when a Pak Supreme Court decision had tried to restore parliamentary form of government in a land ruled by dictators. We had also advocated more power for Panchayats and presented an in-depth investigation into the North-Eastern insurgency taking a new turn. There was a sizable bunch of human interest investigations, including the plight of the lepers and of a woman who loved snakes.