Here I am constantly asked to think out of the box. But how can I when I cannot even figure out where Connaught Place is? Ideas come only when you understand a city, its pulse, its people. Even today, despite the marvellous Google, on which I have searched for every possible name associated with Delhi’s art and culture brigade, I am still struggling to make an impression.
No, I wasn’t brought to Delhi at gunpoint. It was that mad rush to experience Delhi journalism that dragged me here. The downside? Having to interview a relatively unknown Delhi starlet over Mammootty, no Carnatic classical, and worst of all, having to glorify Delhi when you would rather talk about the backwaters.