No more money to buy his pills?
Cut Ravi some slack lah.
He's Singapore's only human rights lawyer and has his hands full handling cases running the gamut from death penalty to ISD detention to electoral impropriety to illegal assembly to defamation lawsuits ... all dealing with various facets of state repression and tyranny.
Think about it: if you get arrested one day for walking in Plaza Singapura wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a 'seditious' slogan, who would you call for legal help?
He once said he wished that more Singapore lawyers would join him in fighting these cases but many of his contemporaries – especially the well-heeled Chinese lawyers – would pat him on the back, tell him to soldier on, but would refuse to join in the fight. Little wonder he's all stressed out and unstable.
Sometimes I wonder whether it pays to fight so hard for cowardly and ungrateful Sinkies.