“If ever you want to prove we’re nuts” said my friend Pertie, with his usual all-knowing smile on his thin lips and his eyes twinkling with mischievous delight, “then go a...
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I’m often asked questions I don’t know the answers to and I consequently struggle to sound intelligent.  I wish I had the courage or strength of character to admit to my ignoranc...
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“You media guys are the cause of at least half the so-called political dissidence we read about” Arun Jaitley once sagely commented although, I suspect, he may no longer remember when...
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Do you have little ways of gauging a person? Simple, straightforward but significant signs that interpret the people you meet? I do. And it’s one of these that lies at the heart of the story I...
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It’s just possible that one of the people reading these sentiments this sunday morning might be the man they are about. He’s an old friend – even if we’ve had moments in between that were ...
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It’s odd but Pakistan’s military dictators tend to be more personable than its civilian heads of government. I never got to meet Ayub Khan but everything I’ve read and heard about him would ...
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The first monkey man I ever came across was probably my nephew Siddharth. At the time he was in his teens and living in Mazagon Docks in Bombay. It’s a small, tightly-knit community confined wi...
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“Karan” said a low base voice which at first I could not locate. “Look behind you.”

I turned around to find Tarun Tejpal. He was in the business class lounge of the airport surrou...
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“I’m a little nervous about meeting you” Mrs. Mathew suddenly but very politely said as we sat down. I was a guest at her school and we had agreed that the students of Apeejay would ask me q...
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I’m beginning to think that whenever I go to the loo there’s an earthquake. Consider the facts. On Republic Day the quake struck minutes after I’d entered the bathroom. A month later, on t...
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