'We live in an age where people are low on patience and tolerance', says CJI Chandrachud

Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud on March 3 remarked that “we live in an age where people are low on patience and tolerance”.

The CJI made the statement while speaking about the effects of social media on society. He said that people are not willing to accept perspectives that are different from their own. He further noted that something which is said as a passing remark germinated into a theory that cannot be tested rationally.

While COVID might have pushed the human race to its edge, it also presented an opportunity to ‘internationalize ideas’. “This is truly something which holds hope for us as we emerge from darkness cast on us in 2020-2021,” the CJI observed.

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