The behaviour of the judges of this country has not been democratised along with the democratisation of polity post-Independence. The judges do not think they are part of the system and at times behave as if they have descended from the heavens. Article 18 of the Constitution abolishes all titles. But the judges of the higher judiciary still call themselves lords. They are immensely pleased if addressed as ‘Your Lordship’ or ‘His Lordship’. The Bar Council has statutory rules obliging lawyers to address judges only as ‘Sir’ or ‘Your Honour’, but they still use those anachronistic prefixes. It is so incongruous that even woman judges are called ‘Her Lordship’.