Readers’ Digest
An integral part of our growing up years, Readers’ Digest was a window to the wonders that lay beyond our immediate geographical constraints. The news of its US parent filing for Chapter 11 to reorganise the company brought along a flood of memories and this resulted in my writing a small piece that was published as middle on the editorial …
Cooking up a story
Nigella Lawson has a great following among people in India, I realised, after I had written a short middle on her, which was published in The Tribune on June 5, 2009. The call and comments that I have received were very emotional, from people who are fans of her show to some who appreciated the middle and an elderly gentleman who said “I ate into my inheritance”, quoting from the piece. Here, I have posted the original version, not the slightly edited one that was published, and a link to the review of Hardeep Singh Kohli’s book.