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  • SC Allows Scribe To Candidate Suffering From Writer’s Cramp

    SC Allows Scribe To Candidate Suffering From Writer’s Cramp

    The Supreme Court has allowed a judicial services aspirant suffering from writer’s cramp to get a scribe to write his preliminary examination for civil judges in Uttarakhand on Sunday. Dhananjay Kumar, the candidate, approached the top court, saying his request to the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission for a scribe was rejected on April 20, just days ahead of the scheduled test. He urged the court to allow him a scribe as he suffers from writer’s cramp and submitted a certificate from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, dated September 25, 2017, about his condition.

    Writer’s cramp is a task-specific movement disorder that manifests itself as abnormal postures and unwanted muscle spasms that interfere with motor performance while writing. The court noted the submission by advocate Namit Saxena, appearing Kumar. A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud then issued a notice to the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission and the state government seeking a response on why Kumar’s request for a scribe was rejected. It directed them to file a response by May 12.

    “We issue an ad interim direction to the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission, which is in-charge of conducting the examination, to ensure that a scribe is provided to the petitioner for the ensuing examination. This shall be without prejudice to the rights and conditions of the parties and subject to such further orders as may be passed by this court,” the bench, comprising Justice PS Narasimha, said.

  • 198 books, and far from putting the pen down: Goa’s writer-Governor

    198 books, and far from putting the pen down: Goa’s writer-Governor

    These lines from a poem titled ‘Oh, Mizoram’ were penned by P S Sreedharan Pillai — in a collection of poems — the night he landed in Mizoram after being sworn in as the Governor of the state in 2019. Pillai says he wrote the poem as an ode to the scenic beauty of the Northeast state.

    And, if that sounds prolific, you don’t know Pillai, now the Governor of Goa. On May 2, a collection of his short stories, Ente Priya Kadhakal, is scheduled to be released by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Thiruvananthapuram. It would be his “198th book”.

    Sitting amidst his office in Raj Bhavan that has stacks of books piled up on chairs and in corners along the floor, the 68-year-old says: “My ambition is to write till my last breath.”

    In a career spanning over five decades, Pillai has been many things — lawyer, student leader, an active BJP politician in his native Kerala, orator — and lately, a Governor blossoming as an author and a poet.

    In the last four years, he has authored at least 60 books on subjects ranging from politics, law, economy and social issues to nature and travelogues. The Covid pandemic, with its empty hours to fill, certainly helped, Pillai says. “Public visits were prohibited and travel was suspended… It was a blessing in disguise.”

    Life has since fallen into a more gubernatorial routine, and Pillai says he manages by waking up at 4 am and spending over an hour voraciously reading or writing. He is never to be seen without a book on his travels, he says.

    The love for reading started young for Pillai, who would frequent the village library at his native Venmony in Alappuzha district to devour anything he could lay his lands on — Malayalam dailies, classics, folklore, and political books. He lists the writings of Ram Manohar Lohia, Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya as among his favourites; and the English T S Eliot and William Shakespeare, Malayalam poet Ayyappa Paniker and Malayalam writer S K Pottekkatt as among his early literary influences.