Last month, the Supreme Court did something simultaneously expansive and restrictive. It held that the legal provision dealing with cruelty by a husband or his relatives can apply to live-in relationships that are 'in the nature of marriage', but drew a line between live-ins with the intent to marry and those that are not. From rows over vegetarianism to alleged imposition of Hindi and the oft-cited bogey of 'love jihad', governance and justice are increasingly blending private and public.