Has an injustice been done to Kiran Bedi? That’s the question I had hoped to explore in an interview with her this evening. Alas, after accepting and reconfirming, she pulled out without giving a...
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I’ve been perusing the Government’s proposed content code for television and I’m baffled. My conclusion is that such codes are damnably difficult to devise and bureaucrats are the wrong peopl...
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Did Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru have a sexual relationship? I don’t know but I would certainly hope so. After all, if they loved each other as much as Edwina’s daughter, Pamela, ass...
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This week I’m going to start with the conclusion: Chandrashekhar was one of the finest politicians I’ve known. No doubt he had his faults but they were more than compensated for by his generosi...
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There are times when I wish we were more American. If a candidate in a US presidential election stood accused as Pratibha Patil is, he or she would have immediately responded to the allegations. Th...
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Have you ever wondered why women in power can be so formidably impressive? Regardless of the correctness of their policies, they often display a steely determination, a cold, calculating, even ruth...
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I had no doubt it was a clever question but I didn’t immediately realize how well-considered it was. It’s even possible that it ended up revealing more than I intended. However, let me not jump...
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Perhaps I should begin with an apology. I’m about to blow my trumpet. Although it’s music to my ears I know to others it can sound discordant, even irritating. But today I trust you will forgiv...
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On occasion interviewers can be amongst the most misunderstood people in the world. If what they’ve done strikes a chord they have no dearth of admirers. But when it doesn’t the criticism can b...
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It wasn’t the sort of conversation I expected to have with Pertie. To be honest, I had no idea he’d even thought about the subject. Yet it turned out that his views were not just well-considere...
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