Last Saturday afternoon, on December 27th to be precise, we went over to the Taj Mahal hotel for lunch. The drive into the hotel was now from its rear-side, originally conceived to be its grand entrance. It seemed so strange, it was a month after the horrific siege, and the Taj was barricaded from all… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
(Republished. Originally in Indian Express) I met Raj Thackeray in his formidable fortress in Shivaji Park, Dadar a couple of years ago, accompanied by two Bollywood celebrities from the land of Pataliputra , Prakash Jha and Shekhar Suman, just when the initial hullabaloo over Railway recruitments had suddenly surfaced. There were several protestations, vitriolic statements… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
He came home for the first time in the small space in front of a Bajaj scooter usually reserved for hand gloves , helmet and license papers. He was so small. It was in Pune, 1996, and he was delivered to us by a nondescript dog merchandiser who was brokering a sale deal for a… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
Friday March 12th 1993 seemed like just another pre-summer day , clear blue skies, odd shaped clouds drifting away in a cluster as if in animated conversation, with crisp sunshine flooding the skyscrapers of Nariman Point. Bombay ( as it was still called that then) seemed to exhibit it’s usual brisk pace, a breezy bustling… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
I suffered from an acute childhood obsession, almost a quirky fetish; the love for petrol smell. It sent me into a delirious zone , as it had a macho aroma about it and my nostrils invariably sniffed out the closest fuel dispensing outlet. Small wonder then that my first career job was at a leading… [Read more…]
June 18, 2009
-By Sanjay Jha The brutally slaughtered Professor Harbhajan Singh Sabharwal never gave me classroom lectures. Neither did he solicitously provide me career advice. In fact, outside the academic fraternity of Ujjain, he was perhaps just a simple middle – class family man , low profile and living a modest existence of a professor a few… [Read more…]
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