As the Kodanad Estate came back in focus for all the wrong reasons, a pained Brit decided it was time to speak out again—on how the estate was actually taken away from him coercively. Peter Craig-Jones, 60, had disclosed in a TV interview how P. Rajarathinam, a corporate raider of the 1990s, had used his clout with the ruling party to repeatedly threaten him to sell the estate to J. Jayalalitha. “Today she is not around, Sasikala is in jail and Rajarathinam is absconding. At least I remain a free man. With my conscience intact,” the Overseas Citizen of India tells G.C. Shekhar. Excerpts: