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• The other Mrs. Malik

  Broadcast On May 10, 1999

  If you believe you know Amita Malik think again. I thought I did but I now realise how wrong I was. For the real McCoy is altogether different. Until now I knew her by her television column. In ...

• Oh to be in England

  Broadcast On May 17, 1999

  What makes England special? That was a question put to me the other day as I sat watching the World Cup. It immediately caught my fancy and since cricket is a tiresome game that I only watch when there’s ...

• Are memories all that we have left?

  Broadcast On May 24, 1999

  ... Kapil Dev and Mohinder Amarnath. The night it was broadcast I received a call from Pravin. “Karan” he began softly. He always speaks gently when he has something critical to say. “A little knowledge ...

• If Generals are in the news then try and beat this one

  Broadcast On May 31, 1999

  It’s a long time since I was called ‘boy’. If I had been younger the term would have made me bristle. But last saturday it left me with a warm, happy feeling. For to be ‘boy’ to someone twice your age ...

• The things we do but should not and the things we should but don’t

  Broadcast On June 7, 1999

  ... Karan bhai tumhari sachai se koi nahin darta lekin tumhari galti se ...” What shall I say? A slip of the mind is no fault of the tongue. A recommendation with a difference I’m in the middle ...

• The third law of bad luck

  Broadcast On June 14, 1999

  To start with there is Sod’s law. It’s the simple, predictable and unfailing principle that anything that can go wrong will. There’s also the Devil’s corollary which determines that this will happen ...

• The Best Regiment in the World

  Broadcast On June 21, 1999

  I wonder how many of you have heard of the Raj Rif? As the causalities from Kargil come home it would seem that a disproportionate share is borne by this valiant army regiment. Major Vivek Gupta, Lt. ...

• Thank you, merci, danke, shukriya

  Broadcast On June 28, 1999

  “I must ask you something”, Madhu Trehan once said to me sometime ago. “You always thank people in your column. Why do you do it?” At the time I laughed it off and so did she. I’m not sure she was ...

• Lollipoppery, you and I

  Broadcast On July 5, 1999

  It’s a long, long time since I last had a lollipop. In fact, so long that I had to buy one to recall the pleasure it once gave me. But now that I have I can speak with authority. The fun of a lollipop ...

• Desh ke liye marna acha hei

  Broadcast On July 12, 1999

  Watching the dead bodies return from Kargil I started to wonder what sort of person chooses to be a soldier. I’d be too scared. More than that I don’t think my heart beats to the right sort of patriotism. ...

• Pt. Jasraj (New Version The Wire)

  Broadcast On August 18, 2020

  Pandit Jasraj in Conversation with Karan Thapar ...

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