SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI writes from Bombay: When someone who is very close to you, or occupied an important place at some time in your life, passes away, do you somehow remember the person just before the tragic news reaches you? It happened to me yesterday afternoon. On a cold but sunny day in Delhi, I was…
Daily Archives: 2 February 2008
When a forger decides to use a famous byline
When Robert Fisk, the London Independent‘s most famous byline, received a copy of a small, 272-page Arabic paperback biography of Saddam Hussain in the mail, he didn’t care much until he read a small note in English accompanying it. “Robert,” it read. “Did you really write this?” Robert really hadn’t. So he decided to trace…
