In a rocking interview, Ram Jethmalani gives Sagarika Ghosh some well deserved lessons:
That is my courage. I have moral courage, and who are the citizens of India? You are not the repositories of the citizens of India. I decide according to my conscience who to defend and please understand and tell those people who are asking this question that there is a statutory rule of the Bar Council of India that a lawyer who refuses to defend a person on the ground that people believe him to be guilty is himself guilty of professional misconduct.
Oh, wows. Watch the video here. Fun!
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Congratulations!
finally the activist judicial system…let me borrow what I wrote on Gaurav’s
(may I Gaurav)
Now one can celebrate Solzhenitsyn….”justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice…”
Confused,
Amazing,, just amazing.. . I just saw the video. I had not seen it earlier.
The interviewer comes across as a really dumb person. When Ram j is giving the reasons, but still she continues to ask – why are you defending Manu Sharma.
It seemed to me that she was actually trying to provoke Ram J and not really trying to understand what he was saying. Note how Ram J was cool and calm in the beginning but the interviewer dumbly kept asking the same question again and again inspite of getting the answer thrice.
Omigod….. the level to which TV news channels have stooped to.
I wonder why CNN even agreed to tie up with dumb Rajdeep and his channel. Dont they have some standards to live up to? I guess its not CNN, the American news channel, its some other CNN (like Cartoon news network, or Crappy news network). The real CNN should be suing IBN for such cheap lifting of brand logos.
But Jyo, commenting on this post now? Quite late, this one was in NOvember.