Around 150 judges, lawyers, Bar Council members, law faculty, and scholars attended the event, with Supreme Court Justices Prasanna B. Varale and N. Kotiswar Singh, along with former Himachal Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Rajiv Shakdher, among those present. Also in the audience was 86-year-old Upendra Baxi himself, one of India’s most influential legal scholars, a human rights activist, and a Padma Shri awardee. “PILs used to be a virtuous weapon in the hands of the weak, but it is now losing its virtuousness,” Nagarathna said on Tuesday during the launch of Law, Justice, Society: Selected Works of Upendra Baxi...