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"Shikarpur was one of the great cities of India."

This video is the second part of Aju John's interview with Senior Advocate and member of the Rajya Sabha, Ram Jethmalani. He was twice elected to the Lok Sabha and has been the Union Minister for Law, Justice and Company Affairs. He was also Chairman of the Bar Council of India between November, 1970 and September 1976. Ram Jethmalani said that even though he is eighty-seven, he distinctly recalled Shikarpur in Sindh, where he grew up as one of the great cities of India. It was on the trade route between India and the countries of Iran and Afghanistan. The people of this city were engaged mainly in banking businesses in southern India. They were extremely rich people who spent nine months outside the city and came back for three months to spend their money. "It was a paradise for eaters. It provided the best possible food. There was a place called Moti's shop where you could spend one anna on a kulfi and you would not have an appetite for the rest of the day. Even the ladies of the upper class families would receive ten rupees per head per month and the standard of living was very comfortable. Kodis, the shells that were found on the beach, were current coin. For one paisa, you used to get fairly big-sized piece of bread with liver, mince, delicious gravy, chutney and onions and you could make a meal out of it." "The greatest beauty was the flowing canal - the Sindhwan, which had water flowing from the Indus for three months every year." On both sides of the canal, were the bungalows of rich people - bungalows that contained swimming pools and ponds. People used to go upstream for about two to three miles, depending on how much water there was, and come down in the canal. Food, mangoes and local wine used to float along with the swimmer. At evening time, the swimmer would get into one of the rich people's bungalows, and into the wells, which had niches, and food would be sent down the well in baskets. "I have never seen anything like that anywhere in the world." Ram Jethmalani also said that he was a good student. "Once in third standard, I was put up on a stage and other school teachers and principals were invited, and it was announced that people could ask me any questions in Mughal history. I did such a good job that people started throwing money at me and some rich people even threw gold guineas." "My father was a practicing lawyer, my gradfather was a lawyer and the president of the municipality. I passed my Ll.B. at the age of seventeen." The rules of the local bar council required that he had to be twenty-one years of age. Ram Jethmalani wrote to the Chief Justice saying that the rule should not apply to him because the rule did not exist when he joined the law college. The Chief Justice then asked the Bar Council to make room for some exceptions, and it was compelled to do so because he got first class in Bombay University - which at that time included the whole of Maharashtra, the whole of Sindh and parts of Gujarat. He then started practice exactly when he completed my eighteenth year, and became a major.