Sunday Sentiments
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I’m not a sportsman and, frankly, other than squash I’ve never played any game. I find cricket tedious and needlessly long drawn-out. Football is better but only be...
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We, in India, believe a prime minister’s agreement to hold press conferences is the true test of his willingness to be accountable to the people. The fact he has to c...
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We all think we knew Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but did we? No doubt several people admired him, many thought he was a fine prime minister and practically everyone was encha...
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It’s a shame we don’t have a tradition of keeping diaries. The British do. From Samuel Pepys to Richard Crossman and onto Woodrow Wyatt they make for enthralling re...
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I’ve often wondered whether coincidences are just meaningless happenstance or if there is a deeper and richer meaning to them. Something we cannot understand or, even...
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If the hot-headed rhetoric of Indian politics has started to irk you, next week could be intolerable. As we approach the Karnataka results the deafening cacophony of po...
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I’m reading a book I regret I didn’t pick up earlier. Called ‘Between Hope and Despair’, it’s a collection of Rajeev Bhargava’s ethical reflections on conte...
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Perhaps it’s an apocryphal story but the philosopher Gertrude Stein was reportedly asked at her death bed ‘What are the answers?’ With herculean effort she repl...
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The fun of reading a memoir lies in what it reveals. It could be a deliberate indiscretion, an astonishing admission or simply details you weren’t aware of. But I’v...
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If it hadn’t actually happened it’s hard to believe it would have. Even if it were fiction this would feel like fantasy. And yet it has happened and it’s certainl...
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