I remember my teacher in the senior Cambridge class beginning his semester with us with the statement, “It is important in life to do what you say and say what you do.”He then went on to elaborate how honouring one’s word is so central to anyone’s character. He also emphasized that civil society itself rests on this premise. He had further gone to clarify that even law, after a point of tolerance, takes cognizance of the violation of promises.
It left a deep impact on me, and I recognized how the foundations of civil society have been laid by people honouring their words. It was easy to realize that everything cannot be documented or be a cognizable offense. This is so because the practice of cognition is not easy either to define or to administer cognizable justice in hearings.There is a lot in life which defines the character of civil society yet cannot be taken to the court of law because evidence could be poor, and in many cases, verifiable evidence is difficult to produce.
Thus, it is that life becomes a passage between the justice in a...
