Do you ever feel the Indian police speak too much? Does it rankle or even rile you that whenever they think they have the suspect of a crime in hand, senior police officers start holding press c...
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Until I met Siddhartha Mehta I used to dread visits to the dentist. Just looking at the array of drills, usually ominously but prominently on display, would fill me with apprehension. Even after...
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I had a horrible feeling this would happen. And now that the Prime Minister’s security and the mindless and inconsiderate cordon they throw around any hospital he visits has allegedly caus...
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Like millions of others, Indira Gandhi is the prime minister I remember first when I recall the past. Twenty five years after her death, her imprint is not just resilient but, perhaps, indelible...
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You could say I’ve become an amateur expert on recovery! Having watched Mummy pull out of a coma and move slowly towards normality, I can tell you the surest sign of getting well is the re...
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I know this sounds strange, but there’s a lot you can learn sitting by the bedside of the seriously ill.  Both Mummy and my brother-in-law, Irwin, are in hospital. Mummy’s at th...
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Were Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten in love? Her daughter, Pamela Hicks, says “the answer undoubtedly is yes”. His sister, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, agreed. How do I know? Her d...
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I wonder how often our politicians think before they speak? I’m not talking of the long and tiresome speeches they deliver or the crafty answers they offer in formal interviews. I assume t...
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines austerity as “moral sternness” and “severe simplicity”. Bearing that in mind, I want to make a few points about our present obsessio...
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Thank God it’s sunday and, if we want, we can stay home and not go out. Because driving in Delhi during the last three days has been a dispiriting and deeply disillusioning experience. I d...
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