Jammu, Feb. 22 -- Ninety five years is a ripe old age for an Indian to live, but the passing away of the eminent jurist and the constitutional lawyer of the country at this period of Indian polity, is a big jolt to those who have been battling for protecting the constitutional values from the attacks of the Narendra Modi government. He was a Colossus in the Indian bar protecting the Indian constitution from every single attack, whether it was Indira Gandhi in 1975 or the present Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last ten years.

Only last year at the age of 94, Nariman told in an interview that the situation in India today was like a veiled emergency but with added prevailing mood of anti-muslim, anti-minority sentiment. Nariman, a Pars...