Espionage With A Touch Of The Real
CLOSE CALL: Stella Rimington Stella Rimington was the first woman to be appointed Director General of MI5, the secret service and counter-intelligence agency of UK, and has written seven Liz…
Read moreVillage Vignettes (Part I) – Having No Money….And So Much Fun!
I spent my childhood (and the holidays of my IIT days) in a village 25kms from Cuttack. My father had a small house in Cuttack with three rooms right from…
Read moreVilllage Vignettes (Part 2) – Seasons in the Sun
Like Shashi Kapoor in Deewar and his ‘maa’, we in Bangalore always knew whatever else people in other cities may have, we had ‘the weather’. And it is not a…
Read moreVillage Vignettes (Part 3) – To Indramani Sir With Love
Indramani Sir was tall and gaunt with not a drop of fat on his body. He walked with fast and long strides and had a booming, clear voice. . He…
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