New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Exceptional individuals are rarely uni-dimensional. They cannot be straitjacketed and defined by a single attribute. A student leader imprisoned during the Emergency, member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Jan Sangh, one of a young crop of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, successful lawyer, voice of the BJP when in opposition, politician, cricket enthusiast and administrator, minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, Member of Parliament and Leader of the Opposition, minister in the first Narendra Modi government, voice-not just as a spokesperson-of the BJP in the media, consensus builder across political parties, raconteur, blogger, and loyal friend-the late Arun Jaitley was all these and much more. He had been seriously ill, and the end was expected, though the timing was uncertain. Since his death, his most defining attribute, projected in the media, has been that of finance minister (FM) in the first Narendra Modi government. Had health permitted, he would have almost certainly continued to be FM in the second Modi government....