The Supreme Court's remarks in the case about migrant workers during the lockdown points is further proof of this trend. “Baked without love, kneaded without knowledge! Justice without flavour, with a grey crust The stale justice which comes too late.” These lines by Bertolt Brecht came to me when reading about the Supreme Court rejecting a plea by Harsh Mander and Anjali Bharadwaj. They had asked the court to direct the government to give monetary support to labourers who have been left without resources after the national lockdown was announced. The Supreme Court was not inclined to agree with them. It asked the Central government to submit a status report, and was satisfied with its efforts. The plea was to give wages to the migrant labour who had lost their jobs. According to the India Legal Live, “Chief Justice asked Prashant Bhushan that if the migrant workers were being provided meals then why did they need money for meals to which Mr. Bhushan replied “they don’t just need food in the shelter homes. we need to give them money to send to their families back home.” Chief Justice Bobde negating Advocate Bhushan’s submissions said, “We cannot say at this stage that they are not getting the food.”” It was a very strange response to what Prashant Bhushan told the court. The chief justice could not understand the need for money when the workers were being provided with food. You don’t live only on food, the good justices must know. The justices need not read experts writing about migrant labourers, and how they have families back in their villages waiting for money transfers. In earlier times, the postman was the most sought-after man in the villages, as he delivered the money orders. Loved ones who slogged in the factories, slept in kholis, bathed on public chapakals or under water taps saved money and wired it to their families.