It takes a certain kind of lawyer to take on the top echelons of the judiciary. Kapil Sibal likes fine art, writes poetry and is a music aficionado. But he doesn’t turn away from butting heads as well.
Sibal has been a lawyer for more than 40 years now and still remembers the day he fought — and lost — his first case. He got his first brief, an election petition from a politician from Meham in Haryana. The politician had contested the election and had won it, switching sides after winning — but the election was set aside on eight