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• The cost of a wedding

  Broadcast On January 25, 1999

  ... bound to build baraatkhanas on either side of it. That would be a traffic jam from Kashmir to Kanya Kumari, this time with the traffic police caught inside. The card with a number ...

• The little things one remembers

  Broadcast On March 29, 1999

  ... in Pakistan is a decent paan. Instead of all this talk about Kashmir and Siachen, trade and visas a simple saada banarsi would have won the argument hands down.” It was well past midnight but undaunted ...

• The things we do but should not and the things we should but don’t

  Broadcast On June 7, 1999

  ... said or you couldn’t hear, well whose fault is that? Be more attentive next time. I’m afraid this attitude won’t do. The world has more to worry about than Kargil and Kashmir. In fact our problem ...

• Lollipoppery, you and I

  Broadcast On July 5, 1999

  ... years I have spent as a political journalist I have travelled often from one end of the country to another, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, as the phrase goes, and everywhere I have gone I have seen some ...

• Sorry, luv, but as far as I’m concerned you’re Indian

  Broadcast On July 10, 2000

  ... Indian.” “I’m not.” Khan replied. Given his political disposition this was an impression he was most anxious to correct. “I’m Kashmiri.” “Same thing luv” the make-up lady continued unabashed. ...

• The boot, my friends, is on the other foot!

  Broadcast On July 24, 2000

  ... of my programmes and he walked in with a big smile on his face. “Hey” he suddenly said with a twinkle in his eyes. “What’s all this you’ve been saying in conferences about Kashmir?” “Huh” I replied. ...

• Why I respect Ram

  Broadcast On July 31, 2000

  ... throw into this simmering cauldron Ram’s outspoken opinions on the new TADA bill, on autonomy for Jammu & Kashmir and, finally, on the unsustainability of the case against Bal Thackeray and it started ...

• The novel that makes George’s point

  Broadcast On August 15, 2000

  ... popular support he cuts a deal with the Jamaat-e-Islami. The terms are unequivocal. “Give us Kashmir, General ” Mullah al-Bishri, the Jamaat Chief, tells Khan. “If you give us Kashmir you will ...

• To think I refused him a job

  Broadcast On October 9, 2000

  ... we evoke sentiment. Now read the following paragraph describing the play of sunlight on the trees of the Kashmir valley as summer settles over Srinagar. It’s from Vikram’s novel ‘The Srinagar Conspiracy’ ...

• The names people call me

  Broadcast On October 30, 2000

  ... opposite happened. It was at a dinner to meet the new CEO of BBC World. I was talking with M.J. Akbar and Salman Haider. If I remember correctly we were at the point of solving the Kashmir issue when ...

• The impact of Hrithik Roshan

  Broadcast On December 4, 2000

  ... Mission Kashmir is more menacing, Amaan in Fiza seems bigger, Rohit-Raj in KNPH more adult. Unlike them Hrithik seems more human. At times he even seems fragile. But in person Hrithik’s impact is, ...

• When the earth shakes but it’s only an earthquake

  Broadcast On April 30, 2001

  ...  “Damn” I said because more often than not the Express and I have similar views on Kashmir even if we only discover this in the confines of my loo. But when the newspaper fell out of my hands I realised ...

• Not quite Breakfast at Tiffany

  Broadcast On July 9, 2001

  ... of influence can such intellectuals hope to exert?  A lot no doubt, but to what ultimate effect?  They could advise on how to take sensible steps to resolve the Kashmir imbroglio, how to ...

• Don’t blame Pervez or Pronnoy

  Broadcast On July 23, 2001

  ... been in accordance with our government’s views – it could hardly have been – but there are many who will agree with him when he says that Kashmir is the main issue separating the two ...

• On knowing when not to speak

  Broadcast On August 20, 2001

  ... of his speeches and be able to gauge the platforms they require. If they are to be a litany of rojgar yojanas and ritualistic assertions on Kashmir then it is best to get them over with on television. ...

• The call of Kabul

  Broadcast On November 19, 2001

  ...  More often than not it also translated into support for Pakistan’s position on Kashmir. At one point they even spoke of self-determination. No doubt the Taliban years have changed much of that. Pakistan ...

• Hamid Karzai and the things he said nine years ago

  Broadcast On December 17, 2001

  ... in a very good way, and that their rights will be given to them.” Later in the same interview Karzai appeared to support what he called the Kashmir struggle : “We support every movement that is just.” ...

• I say, Mr. Laxman!

  Broadcast On July 29, 2002

  ... he said “common people are not the same. Bengalis don’t look like Maharashtrians or Tamils. And they, in turn, don’t look like Punjabis or Kashmiris. It takes an awful lot of time to draw them, I say.” “So ...

• I believe in luck

  Broadcast On November 11, 2002

  ... the words I wished I hadn’t said them. “Mr. Lyngdoh” I asked. “Look back on Kashmir and tell me what was it about Kashmir that made the election so successful?” Ugh! So imagine my surprise when ...

• The prodigal’s return

  Broadcast On December 2, 2002

  ...  Who would I talk to? And what about? Despite my parentage I’m perhaps the least military person you can imagine. Indeed, my views on subjects like Pakistan and Kashmir tend to stick out like sore thumbs. ...