Through no fault of my own I had landed in a paradox. I had just started my life, but at the same time I was in my late sixties...

I told Ronny and Adela about my meeting with the doctor. Suddenly Ronny cried out: 'Good gracious! Not a Mohammedan?' He started questioning me...

When the National Anthem was played, we all rose from our chairs. Ronny offered me a drink, but I had had enough drinks. I had drinks all the time...

Barack Obama is a gifted speaker and writer. He knows his way around a metaphor and he knows how to deliver a speech. He even knows how to elicit a placebo response in his audience...

The doctor walked me back to the Club. He asked me if I cared to see the Minto Hospital in the morning. ‘Thank you’, I said, ‘I have seen it already...'

Julian Barnes says he wouldn’t mind dying so much, as long as he didn’t end up dead at the end of it...

I decided not to go to the play. It was terribly hot at the Club and I had seen it already in London. I went for a walk instead. Chandrapore had been a bit of a disappointment...