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…]
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