TRIBUTES have been flowing thick and fast on the sad demise of the national and global actor for human rights and integrity of the legal profession. The loss is great and eminent lawyers continue to mourn him. Astonishing tributes include those of Shanti Bhu shan, Indira Jaising, Sudhish Pai and Abhinav Chandrachud and many a leading professional lawyer has hailed Soli as a veteran lawyer and jurist.
The esteem in which he was held was manifest in a condolence webinar on May 7, 2021, which included KK Venugopal, Fali Nariman, Kapil Sibal, Harish Salve, Justice Mukul Mudgal and Tushar Mehta. Soli would be pleased with this event and it being chaired by his proud daughter Zia Mody, but would have mildly reproached the organisers for not including other eminent women colleagues.
Mildness was a virtue of Soli as I knew him. In public life, he was not given to expressions even of just indignation. I have witnessed moments of great irritation and even flashes of exasperation, but never fits of temper. Soli believed in (as eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said once about the task of philosophy) “showing the fly the way out of the fly bottle”. He believed in the basic principles of law and justice, but all his life regarded principled pragmatism as a virtue of democratic lawyering and justicing.
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