India, Aug. 25 -- Arun Jaitley and I became friends well before we met each other in Delhi University in 1977. Quite surprisingly I got a postcard, checked and stamped by Tihar Jail authorities from the president of Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU). The contents were brief and only requested me to raise the issue of permission to the interned DUSU president to take his MA Final Exams in Law, permission which required clearance from the University's Academic Council of which I was then a Student Member. Although I did not personally know Jaitley then and our college, namely, St Stephen's, was not remotely involved in University politics, I thought it to be my democratic duty to help an unfairly interned opposition leader to be allow...