Sunday Sentiments
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William Dalrymple’s latest book should bring cheer to his Indian readers. It establishes what we’ve always believed is the case. But it’s best to hear it from him...
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The News that HARDtalk on the BBC, one of my favourite programmes, is to be scrapped in March has disappointed, dismayed and, yes, depressed me. I can’t help feel it...
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For Harold Macmillan a week was a long time in politics. For the Israelis the one year the Israel-Hamas war has lasted must feel like an age. In that time their world h...
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I must have been 16 but my memory is as clear as if it happened yesterday. I had come down for the weekend from Stowe and we were watching television. Kiran was smo...
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“I’m besotted with words; it’s fair to say that I love them.” Doesn’t that confession sum-up Shashi Tharoor? It certainly captures the image we have of him an...
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I can’t recall when I first met Sitaram Yechury. It was probably shortly after I returned to India in 1990. But what I’ll never forget is my first big interview wit...
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These days, in India, we’re accustomed to history as fiction but what we’re not familiar with is tantalizingly-crafted historical fiction. That’s what Robert Harr...
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First impressions, I admit, can be misleading but they can also be indelible. That’s certainly true of my trip to ‘Calcutta’ last weekend. I don’t know the city...
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Sometimes it can be a topsy-turvy crazy world. A case of a cartoon from MAD magazine transforming into reality. That’s what seems to have happened to the folks next d...
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