Who’d have ever thought retired army generals spend their time trawling the net, discovering the witty or insightful comments of others and then circulating them widely to their friends? A...
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The modern capital of India is not ‘Dilli’ or ‘Dehli’. It’s Delhi. In other words, the name, the pronunciation and the spelling is not simply the aglicization of an...
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I’m afraid we in India have a terrible tendency to over-react and, sadly, our press – television, admittedly, more than print – panders to our folly. It blows it up and makes i...
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There’s a book published tomorrow that deserves to be widely read and I want to  be the first  to draw your attention to it. It’s Jaswant Singh’s biography of Jinnah. ...
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Do you remember “Friends, Romans, Countrymen”? Those were the words with which Mark Anthony began his funeral oration at Caesar’s death. He said he had come to bury Caesar not ...
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This is a lament. I grieve for L. K. Advani. No man of 81 deserves to be demolished by his own misjudgement or the deliberate revelations of once-close colleagues. The beauty of age should be th...
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Do you have funny habits – strange, inexplicable, even, pointless ones? I must admit I do. But it was only when I saw them through someone else’s eyes that I realized just how odd th...
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“You’ve been wittering on about Lewis Caroll but do you know his real name?”

It was an odd question for Pertie to ask. More than that, I found it hard to believe he kne...
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I’m afraid Humpty Dumpty wasn’t correct. Nor, I would suggest, is the Prime Minister. Words may have different meanings but you can usually determine what is intended by the context....
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What do dictators do when they retire? After they fall from the pinnacle of power, how do they adjust to ordinary life? Those were the first questions I asked when I met Gen. Musharraf in London...
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