How did the Tartar, a bright young lawyer, evolve from achieving his ambition to be a top Government lawyer to being a top dissident?
This projectory can be seen from his own words in his memoir To Catch A Tartar, 1994 published].
To call a person a Tartar is to refer to one that proves to be unexpectedly formidable.
Such is the title ‘anointed’ to the writer in this memoir of his meteorite rise up the ladder in the Singapore Legal Service and subsequent fallout with the establishment.
With an introductory letter from AP Rajah to his good friend the Acting AG Butterfield QC, he went for the interview on a Saturday morning, was hired on the spot and asked to start work on Monday [ p 13-16]…
Caveat- like any memoir this represents the writer’s particular point of view. Readers will have to draw their own conclusions.