Dr. Johnson once said when a man is tired of London he’s tired of life. Let me add a corollary : To appreciate London to the full you have to over-indulge yourself. Which is why I call it...
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What is a journalist? You might find that an odd question from an old hack. However, it’s prompted not by idle curiosity but a recent report on Star News. And let me not mince my words. ...
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Hats off to Madonna - but that's as far as I'll go - and a small apology to Murli Manohar Joshi. The two make an unlikely pair but, for the purposes of my tale, they're intimately intertwined. ...
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There's something admirable about the American political system in the middle of one of its periodic fits of moral righteousness. I suppose that's why it is the greatest democracy in the world. ...
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I hadn't realised it was a Bengali quality. I'd assumed that tehzib was Lucknowi. How wrong I was and how foolish I now feel. For the truth of the matter is that courtesy is as much a Calcutta...
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"Bugger Bognor" said George V in a moment of reckless candour. The comment was supposed to reflect his frustration with the middle-class, middle-brow British seaside resort. In the same alliter...
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Dear, oh dear, oh dear. I don't think Sushma Swaraj is going to like me. I suspect I'm not her favourite TV person anyway but now I wager I shall fall yet lower in her scales. Perhaps I should ...
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We all crib about the system not working. That's because most of the time it doesn't. But every now and then it takes one so completely by surprise you're left gasping with astonishment. This...
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Do you ever pause to consider the lizard on the wall? Does the slimy, slippery, pale brown creature, as it crawls across the ceiling, attract your fancy? Or do you lie paralysed on your bed petri...
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There's a little bit of an old woman in all of us and the older we get the more she asserts herself. I'm at the age when the matron in me is often irrepressible. Under her influence I become pr...
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