Karpal Singh at the Penang High Court in 1987. - Starpix/CHUAH YEW KHOON
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.
