NOT WORTH IT
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This week last year, the chief justice of India admitted that nearly three crore cases are pending in Indian courts. Since the deadline for trial to end is still five years away, the number remains astronomical. The fate of millions depends on these cases. They vastly outnumber the small band of Indians out to liberate (To liberate someone from something means to help them escape from it or overcome it, and lead a better way of life) the Kohinoor from the Tower of London, a splendidly gloomy correctional facility of last resort for royalty, which now houses the diamond. The only benefit of bringing the Kohinoor back to India would be lower rupee admission prices for admiring the troublesome jewel. All else is sentiment.
The government has flinched(If you flinch from something unpleasant, you are unwilling to do it or think about it, or you avoid doing it) from the sentiment of its solicitor general, who opined (To opine means to express your opinion) that the Kohinoor was a “gift” from Duleep Singh to the British. For over a century, historians, conspiracy theorists, nationalists and colonial offices in London hotly debated the circumstances in which the rock changed hands. In Amritsar in 2013, David Cameron had declined to reopen the matter. Which was tactically prudent, since a single precedent would invite claims from the former colonies which would gut the British Museum of its treasures. Only some relics from Sutton Hoo and Salisbury would remain.
Bringing back black money, runaway tycoons and their misbegotten (badly conceived or planned) swords is now the job of elected governments. The government in office was elected to perform precisely this inspiring role, apart from the boring routine of governance. The courts already have their hands full with crores of pending cases, which must be urgently disposed. For them, the Kohinoor is just a red herring (A herring is a long silver-coloured fish. Herring live in large groups in the sea). Milords, in the public interest, please cease and desist.
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