•Hello and welcome to Walk the Talk I am Shekhar Gupta My guest this week is Kapil Sibal, whom everybody knows. But the guest this week is Kapil Sibal who not many people know, not Kapil Sibal the minister or the lawyer, but Kapil Sibal - the poet

Well, not a poet really. I’ve not been a prolific writer of poetry. But a peripatetic poet.

•Like an occasional poet.

Yes

•You remember that line from Kabhi Kabhi …Amitabh Bachchan’s. Mein pal tho pal ka shayar hoon.

Bas yahi baat hein. Pal tho pal ka shaayar hoon.

•And I believe most of these pals are on board airplanes

Absolutely. Most of these written on the cell phone.

•So you wrote your whole book of poetry on your cell phone

Absolutely. From May of this year to July of this year. All of them. Except for one or two which I had written earlier. One on Vajpayeeji. As it was written earlier, it’s in the records of the Rajya Sabha…..but other than that most of them written…..

•You remember the lines from that one

Dear atalji I must confess It is time to clear up all this mess

•Go on

Let us (something) deal with unfinished tasks and see the man behind the mask December 6th this nation saw gross violation of the law In retrospect you said this meant an expression of national sentiment

•So that was from a poet to a poet because even he was more than an occasional poet.

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