India at 75: Judiciary has become near-perfect example of Russell's paradox

The question "who judges the judiciary" is fundamental since it appoints its own members via the Collegium system introduced in the early 1990s

This is the third in a six-part series on how institutions—Constitution, Legislature, Executive, Judiciary, RBI and Concluding article—have worked since independence. This series will appear on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the run-up to 75th Independence Day on August 15. Part 1 Part 2

How does one judge a judiciary? There are no simple answers to this question because, in most cases, justice is a zero-sum game in which one side wins everything, and the other gets nothing. So being aggrieved with judges is natural. Clearly, that cannot be a basis.

But in the Indian case,