India, March 26 -- Opposing counsels who are constantly at loggerheads in the Supreme Court were aligned late last month. The suo motu case taken up by the Supreme Court, regarding a school textbook chapter, brought them together. Later, the government too agreed with them. In that rare moment, they collectively chastised the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) for a section in a chapter titled The Role of Judiciary in our Society in the Class VIII social science textbook. One of the portions in this dealt with corruption in the judiciary, mentioned the code of conduct that governs judges, the accountability mechanisms, and went on to say that, despite these systems, corruption did exist and that those who are mos...