WITH the passing away of Karpal Singh, the country has lost a great Malaysian, a great man and a great lawyer.
Some may say we have lost a good politician; he was an improbable politician, perhaps, and I often wondered how a patently honest man given to straight talking and straight thinking could have ever become a politician - but his effect as a politician was far-reaching nevertheless.
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