India, Aug. 24 -- Dear Shri Harish Salve Ji,

I usually do not watch television interviews, except when the interviewer is Karan Thapar, a habit I developed when he made his debut producing a weekly bulletin for the Hindustan Times, where I too worked. What prompted me to watch the interview you gave Arnab Goswami of Republic TV was a video clip from it that a friend sent me. I was shocked by some of your observations and decided to watch the full interview on YouTube. I was testing my own patience.

As I watched, I could not help remembering the interview I did with your father, NKP Salve, for Jain TV in the 1990s. Goswami, I presume, was then still "studying for some time in a Jesuit-run school," as he described his educational backgro...