I had nightmares for the past few days about having to hear the news of Arun Ji’s passing and then having to vent out my despair and sadness through the written word which more than often is a substantially challenging task. But then there are occasions when it borders the impossible. This for me is one of those occasions. In this world full of prevaricating politicians who either cannot string together a whole meaningful sentence or ones who have no substance to offer and yet are inebriated by the exuberance of their own verbosity, Arun Ji was someone who knew it all, and could persuade even a five year old (which is what more often than not he had to do in parliament) with his articulate and passionately put arguments. Although he would never die in our hearts and minds having become a part of the way we think and essential to our ideology, if there were an epitaph for him, it would read this: “Let’s be very clear about this”, as he would always say. This shall reverberate in my ea