As temperatures soar in Delhi’s oppressive summer, Supreme Court lawyers in their sweeping, heat-trapping black robes must have read sweet hope in additional solicitor-general Indira Jaising’s tweet: “Summer is hear (sic), why do we need the gown? If the High Court can get rid of it, why not the Supreme Court?” Maybe even the ‘hear’ is a Freudian slip on her part, an expression of an earnest desire to be heard. The court is taking a short summer vacation, and Indira’s tweet may get some mulling over. If something comes of it at all, what those 140 characters achieve could be as sweeping as what happened when the Bar Council adopted a resolution to drop the “milords”, “your lordships” and so on, colonial forms of addressing judges that made way for the formal yet just that bit egalitarian “your honour” or “the honourable court”. In fact, some senior advocates drop even that on occasion, making do with a simple “sir”.