“I’m besotted with words; it’s fair to say that I love them.” Doesn’t that confession sum-up Shashi Tharoor? It certainly captures the image we have of him an...
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I can’t recall when I first met Sitaram Yechury. It was probably shortly after I returned to India in 1990. But what I’ll never forget is my first big interview wit...
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These days, in India, we’re accustomed to history as fiction but what we’re not familiar with is tantalizingly-crafted historical fiction. That’s what Robert Harr...
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First impressions, I admit, can be misleading but they can also be indelible. That’s certainly true of my trip to ‘Calcutta’ last weekend. I don’t know the city...
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Sometimes it can be a topsy-turvy crazy world. A case of a cartoon from MAD magazine transforming into reality. That’s what seems to have happened to the folks next d...
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I have known of Natwar Singh virtually all my life but the first time I really got to know him was probably in 1976. He was Deputy High Commissioner in London. I was th...
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Have you ever thought about how Punjabis view Pakistan? It’s distinctly different to the rest of the country. In fact, I would imagine the closest parallel is how Ben...
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It’s the sort of thing WhatsApp messages warn you against. Guard against door-to-door salesmen, resist enticing offers from fly-by-night companies and never share you...
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If you’re a member of a club you’ll know it’s special. Introduced by the Raj, they’re associations where people of equal standing can meet and relax, without fe...
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On a hot sunny summer day there’s no country to beat Britain. Not just the weather but the place itself feels transformed. Actually, idyllic. Like lambs frolicking in...
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