Hello and welcome to Walk the Talk. I am Shekhar Gupta, at Delhi’s St. Stephen’s College with another of its very proud alumni, and I must say the venue was chosen by him. Wajahat Habibullah, welcome to Walk the Talk.

Thank you, thank you.

All you old Stephanians are happy to come back to college.

Always. It sort of gives one a feeling of peace, being at home.

Because many of us who sort of went to school and college in rougher environments are quite happy to have escaped.

Well I suppose at the time when actually one left one felt that everyone is moving on, but I don’t think that we’d really describe it as an escape. I greatly enjoyed my stay here, and made many friends who have turned out to be lifelong friends and I think it was a time of great creativity, time that I remember with a great deal of nostalgia and a great deal of happiness.

Because many of the people you studied with, you’ve then worked with in public life or in your social life over the past four decades.

Yes, but I haven’t really, I don’t remember my association so much in terms of public life but I do remember my continuing private association with people.

Because you were also active in theatre.

I was, and I had a number of people who acted with me in plays and, when I wasn’t acting, I was also involved in backstage.

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