Perhaps the telephone’s insistent ringing should have put me on my guard. Someone, it seemed to suggest, was determined to get through. In fact, it happened to be Pertie. He was calling from Dehr...
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Judging by the newspapers and the excited commentary on television you could be forgiven for thinking that the fact Dr. Manmohan Singh has assumed personal charge of the Finance Ministry means the ...
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Perhaps because I don’t know many, I used to think of ‘royals’ as one of a kind. For me they were a type. One was as good or as bad as the other. It turns out t...
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I have to admit it was an unlikely moment for a flash of understanding. To be frank, I always thought revelations were more momentous. More dramatic. Mine happen...
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There’s nothing I like more than a clever way with words. I don’t mean a smart Alec reply but wit and a little twist in the tail. It requires succinctness of...
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There’s a telling, if apocryphal, story about former King Farouk of Egypt. When he was deposed in 1952 he’s alleged to have prophetically said: “One day th...
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Looking out of the car window the other day I began to think about how we in Delhi name our roads. It was the oddly named ‘Jesus and Mary Marg’ that set me o...
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If you’re interested in Greek tragedy – or the Shakespearean version, for that matter – you’ve probably already identified the incredible similarity between General V. K. Singh, on the one ...
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The popular view is that political anger against the use of cartoons in NCERT text books is   unjustified. Most people also say it smacks of intolerance and amounts...
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Unless I’m mistaken it was a hindi teacher at Doon School who firs...
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