In Bangalore, there are reporters (not all cubs, mind you) who quiver at the prospect of a “H.D. Deve Gowda assignment”; so scared they are of the arched eyebrows, the permanent scowl, and the fulmination of the farmer. The newspapers are too polite to report it, but when he gets real irritated, the former prime…
Daily Archives: 10 March 2008
A fast, inswinging toe-crusher from a paceman
“There are a lot of newspapers I take seriously, but Friday Times is not one of them. It’s mind over matter. I don’t mind and they don’t matter.” —Pakistani cricketer turned politician Imran Khan in an interview with Karan Thapar