No doubt we all receive letters but if you happen to be in my profession they are not always welcome. Often they can be blunt and even morale-shattering.

Last week, however, I got a lett...
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There’s nothing I like more than a nice tie. Although I’m proud of my collection of Hermes and Ferragamo they are by no means the only ones I’m fond of. Yet sadly some that I’ve taken a f...
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Patwant Singh says I’ve started dropping names and perhaps he’s right. I cannot deny a certain fascination for people with handles to their names. But the bit that cut into the quick was what...
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There is a quality the elderly often posses which youth and middle-age only rarely, if ever, lay claim to. The odd thing is that it ought to be the other way around. Yet perhaps because of their ...
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Why did we warm to President Clinton? The question is intriguing because the answer, though simple, is not necessarily straight forward. Was it only because he said nice things about us? Surely ...
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Now that he’s safely back in D.C. it’s time to reveal a few truths. To have done so earlier would have been discourteous or, to use a much more appropriate desi term, it would have breached th...
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What is it that makes a man truly great? The question is as interesting as it could be misleading. Most of us assume that great men are defined by great qualities. Not so or, at least, not neces...
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Let us for a moment this sunday morning consider the activities the Supreme Court and Mrs. Dikshit will no longer permit us to indulge in with impunity and then let us pause over the one act we can...
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Sometimes things have a way of turning out quite differently to what you intend or imagine. I suppose that’s what people mean when they say it makes you smile on the other side of your face.

It’s happened to all of us. It’s one of the sad, cruel facts of life. At the last moment, when the crown should be yours, fate can sometimes cheat you of victory. When it does everyone knows...
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