I saw the Ram Jethmalani video on CNN-IBN long back but thought of commenting on the angry old man after I read Nitin’s post Ram Jethmalani rocks. Well when do people get irritated? 2 case as far as I can think. One when people oppose you and they point out the mistake you have committed. Out of you ego you don’t want accept the mistake and so try to form arguments in support of it. And also in the process try to evade the question by blabbering responses like “You don’t know a thing about it” or “What right do you have to oppose my personal decision” or try to prove his intellectual prowess and this trying to belittle the questioner. Ego comes by age and particularly to a person of his caliber, he without doubt the best criminal lawyer in the country. I respect him and I have high regards for him. But his stature would never have been reduced if he accepts his mistake, to err is human. But the big question is did he commit a mistake my accepting to defend Manu Sharma. Money would have been no issue at all. So why was he angry? Perhaps due to second reason.
From the category archives:
Society
Ram Jethmalani has decided to defend Manu Sharma, accused of murdering Jessica Lal. Manu Sharma is is the son of one of the leading politicians in the state of Haryana, Venod Sharma, belonging to the Congress Party. Here is what happened on that fateful night
On April 29, 1999, leading socialite Bina Ramani organized a party at her restaurant, Tamarind Court Cafe, in the Qutub area of South Delhi - it was to be a farewell party for her husband Georges Mailhot who was going abroad for six months. Several youngsters and models were serving drinks at the ‘Once upon a time’ bar, including Jessica Lall and her friends Malini Ramani and Shyan Munshi.
At about 0200 hours when the party was almost over, Manu Sharma with his friends Amardeep Singh, Alok Khanna, Amit Jhingan and Vikas Yadav, allegedly entered the restaurant and demanded liquor from Jessica.
Since the bar was being closed, Jessica told Sharma that no more drinks would be served. After some altercation, Sharma lost his temper and fired his gun - once in the air and the second time at Jessica. The bullet struck her temple and she died on the spot.
Sharma fled from the restaurant with his friends in a car which was later found abandoned in a Delhi suburb. During an intense hunt for Sharma over a week, three of his friends were arrested, but Sharma himself went underground. His father, Venod Sharma was asked to step down as Congress Party Chief in the state.
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I found this article on rediff..where else 
A mother of four has been driven out of her village in Murshidabad district by a Muslim panchayat after being allegedly raped by a local man three months ago.
The panchayat ruled that her marriage stood annulled in the wake of the incident and that she could neither live with her husband nor enter the predominantly Muslim village, which is about 200 km from Kolkata.
The village council ruled that the couple should pay Rs 50,000 if they wished to stay together, a condition which the victim’s husband, a daily wage labourer, failed to meet.
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This is the diary entry of Peter Voisey. Well what was over? Here is the answer
Peter Voisey snatched the girl from the ground-floor bathroom of her home in Willington Quay, North Tyneside
After grabbing the girl from her bath, he put his hand over her mouth and told her that if she made a noise she would not see her family again.
He repeated the threat as he carried out the attacks.
He drove her around the area, repeatedly sexually abused her, then abandoned her naked and screaming in a snow-covered alleyway last December
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An year ago I had tryst with reality. Those memories were refreshed when I saw Angrez yesterday. Its a movie based in Hyderabad and the differences that prevail between the old city and hi-tech city. In other words it’s about
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