For a man who gleefully described himself as a pseudo secularist, Vinod Mehta would have been chuffed to see the eminences across the ideological spectrum who turned up at his funeral. L K Advani, Arun Jaitley and Ravi Shankar Prasad and other government ministers were there to pay tribute, as were Sonia Gandhi, Sheila Dikshit, and Ahmed Patel, and D Raja from the CPI.