Scotland of the East: Balmy Shillong is the coolest place for parleys, even between hotheads
When CJI Ranjan Gogoi spoke of Meghalaya’s capital as a ‘cool place’, he was alluding to its climate and not trendiness.
By ET Bureau |
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Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi
It would not do to presume that our honourable judges have a predilection for popular phraseology, so when the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi spoke of Meghalaya’s capital Shillong as a ‘cool place’, he was definitely alluding to its balmy climate and not trendiness.
Therefore, the excitable gentlemen from New Delhi and Kolkata headed there later this week for a much-delayed parley are no doubt expected to chill — literally and colloquially — in Shillong as the CJI has commended its weather and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has publicly said Kolkata’s beleaguered police chief can relax there.
Shillong
Now that the Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy has also tweeted to remind both parties that the state is the ‘Scotland of the East’, hopefully the interrogation will be in the right spirit too.
Many words today mean different things to different people and it does not help that ‘cool’ has a range of connotations. So, whether both parties of police functionaries are equally cool towards each other or with each other, they are obviously expected to keep their cool and not lose it.
After all, the Supreme Court has ensured no one will cool their heels in any lock-up during or after this interaction in cool Shillong. Of course, the unspoken diktat is that no one side will drink the kool-aid; anything other than that is cool.
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