1. Much ado about a chair

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    Old timers say the incident reminds them of the unsavoury episode at Hyderabad’s old airport at Begumpet in 1982 when Rajiv Gandhi as Congress general secretary insulted chief minister T Anjaiah. Thirty years on, Ghulam Nabi Azad reportedly sat on chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy’s chair at the CM’s camp...
  2. Gunned out of CBI top job?

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    CBI director Mohan Katre was to retire on October 31, 1987. The then Congress government had cleared the name of the number 2 in the CBI, Additional director Radhakrishnan Nair to take over as CBI director. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had okayed the appointment and the Press Information Bureau issued...
  3. I have a confession to make

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    My life’s greatest regret is that I did not thank the two people who saved my family and me from possible physical harm on 21st May 1991.   I live in Bangalore. Twenty years back, I had some urgent personal work in Chennai and I had gone there with my...

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