I met Harish Maroliya for the first time in my journalism class in the 2008-09 batch. He was the eldest student of our journalism class, even older than our teacher. But Maroliya became known to everyone not because of his age but for his varying views. I remember our first class of ‘press laws’. We were trying to define what law was in our own understanding. Everyone in the class, including the teacher, was stunned when it was Moraliya’s turn. He said, “Law means to follow our inner conscience.”
No one in the class, including our teacher, agreed with his definition. The question we raised about Moraliya’s view was that if any person’s conscience wants him to kill someone, would this be right and whether it can be justified in law?
We would often travel by local train, and I got to know that he took voluntary retirement from the customs department. Moraliya would often tell me that most of his neighbours were not happy with him because he claimed he would often directly expose their wrongdoings.
Apart from journalism, Moraliya was studying forensic science. He would say, “I want to explore myself and I feel I can do anything I want.” Moraliya had also done his LLB. Unusually, his designation on his card was ‘Advocate (fraud specialist)’.
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