Sunday Sentiments

• ATTRACTED TO THE WORLD OF WORDS, LIKE BEES TO HONEY

  Published On September 29, 2024

  “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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• SITA, A MAN OF WIT WHO STOOD BY WHAT HE SAID

  Published On September 22, 2024

  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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• HH ASQUITH, ON THE PRECIPICE OF PROPRIETY

  Published On September 15, 2024

  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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• THE GOOD LIFE OF THE RAJ IN A CALCUTTA HOTEL AND CLUB

  Published On September 8, 2024

  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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