Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, who retired on 12 August 2021, after a 7-year tenure in the Supreme Court, has started a YouTube channel called the ‘Justice Nariman Official Channel’ – thus becoming the first retired Supreme Court judge to start an official YouTube channel.
Already boasting of close to 11,000 subscribers, after going live earlier this month on 16th April, the channel showcases 48 videos of his lectures and conversations on eclectic topics – from law and history, to religion, music and spirituality… including topics like Jazz, Western classical music, Persian history, Zoroastrianism, Akbar, Suleiman I, Elizabeth I, and comparative religious perspectives on reincarnation.
According to Justice Nariman, the idea of starting a YouTube channel began with a desire to upload all his speeches, which were scattered all over the place, onto one platform. Initially unaware of it, he learnt of the channel from juniors in the profession.
There are a number of firsts one can associate with justice Nariman. His trajectory as a lawyer and as a judge has been exceptional from the word go. No less than the then Chief Justice of India had to make sure he donned the twin coat with gown. In 1993, then CJI MN Venkatachaliah amended the rules to designate him as a senior advocate at the young age of 37 against the mandatory 45.
He was appointed Solicitor General of India in July 2011 and served till February 2013 when he resigned from the post reportedly due to difference of opinion with then Union law minister, Ashwani Kumar, on certain crucial cases pending before the top court. In July 2014, he was elevated to the Supreme Court as a judge, earning yet another distinction of becoming only the fifth lawyer in the judicial history to be directly appointed from the bar.
As a judge, justice Nariman was associated with several path-breaking verdicts. Some of his landmark verdicts include quashing the much-abused Section 66A of the Information Technology Act that authorised police to arrest people for social media posts construed offensive; expediting the trial in the Babri demolition case; declaring privacy as a fundamental right; striking down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalised homosexuality and holding instant triple talaq as null and void.
Son of eminent jurist Fali S Nariman, Justice Nariman was ordained a Parsi priest at the age of 12, and has a photographic memory, which allows him to talk about dates, anecdotes, events, names, and the minutest details and descriptions of various subjects. Justice Nariman is a prominent scholar of Zoroastrianism and comparative religions. He has delivered various lectures on religion and spirituality across the world. Having studied the Gathas, he produced a comprehensive analysis of the scriptures in his book, ‘The Inner Fire: Faith, Choice and Modern Day Living in Zoroastrianism’.
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