No doubt in the very first elections held in newly independent India, the fact that you had been to jail lent a certain cachet to your candidature. Everyone worthwhile had been to prison after all – Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabbhai Patel, Maulana Azad etc. These days, however, most Indians would prefer it if their [...]
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Mine is probably the last generation that remembers a time when the most popular show on Indian TV was Chitrahar on Friday evenings. Sundays were special because that was when Doordarshan screened American and German shows and much later, the Ramayana and Mahabharata. It was astrologically possible for soaps to begin with any letter of [...]
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Such a pain! Moving house is always a terrific ache in the backside. Not to mention your noggin, your wallet and everything else. But when envy drives you, everything becomes so much easier.
I was real serious about Reading India when it started and I continue to like a lot about it. But that whole drippy [...]
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