Mr. SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, CJ.

ORDER

1. Mr. M. Baskar, learned counsel, accepts notice for the respondent.

2. The petitioner claiming to be a social worker and a press reporter and also claiming to be working as Chief Editor of ‘Dhinamathi’, a Tamil Daily, since 2005, has filed the present Public Interest Litigation, aggrieved by the Calendar arranged by this High Court.

3. It is his say that for the past two decades only the festival of Deepavali is celebrated in the State of Tamil Nadu and two days holidays used to be given, as it is not a major festival in the southern part of India. It is stated to have been made famous by the north Indian people, who have settled in the State of Tamil Nadu. It is pleaded that the Tamil festival of Pongal is celebrated nowhere except the State of Tamil Nadu. The allegation is that because the last and current Chief Justice happened to be from north India, it is an endeavour to thrust the northern culture on the people of Tamil Nadu.

4. The petitioner, thereafter, proceeds to go into the aspect as to why Deepavali is celebrated. He questions why Ravanaa’s effigies should be burnt on that date, as he claims, this amounts to a vendatta against a section o

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