M.V. Kamath, a Journalist at LargeM.V. Kamath, with four decades of rich and varied experiences, has traveled the world with an eye for people and a nose for news. He has met an amazingly wide range of characters from all walks of life from royalty to Nobel laureates, from film and theatre personalities to statesmen and politicians. His meetings have resulted in this collection of anecdotes some sad, some outright funny, and some simply staid. His writing in no way borders on gossip, but rather delves into the humanity of each subject. Journalism opened up vast avenues for M.V. Kamath. He lived a life of pleasant surprises, wondering what the next day held for him. The short pieces in this book are a minute collection of material that would probably fill up 10 such books. However, this collection powerfully conveys his experiences of pain and joy that run through all his encounters. He views both these universal experiences as ephemeral. This fleeting aspect of life binds each anecdote to the other, thus elevating story-telling to a fine art, that doesn t sound forced or acquired, and comes straight from the heart. |
Contents
Big Bania Gandhi | 3 |
Nehrus Visit to Bombay 1946 | 9 |
A Brush with Dr Ambedkar | 15 |
Sequels to the Stories of Mahatma | 22 |
Indonesias Ali Sastramidjojo | 28 |
Col Fitzpatrick the Great Cartoonist | 35 |
Remembering Hammarskjold | 41 |
Menon was Pleased | 47 |
Have I Been to Portugal? | 152 |
Deprived of Solitude on Birthday | 155 |
The Way of Our Fates | 158 |
Healing Touch | 161 |
A Painful Farewell | 165 |
At the Point of No Return | 167 |
Meeting My Wife Thirty Years Later | 169 |
Honoured at Hometown Mangalore | 173 |
Last clash with Krishna Menon | 54 |
Khrushchev Master of Press Conference | 61 |
Having Indira for Pot Luck Dinner | 70 |
Brandt the Communicator | 72 |
do not stand on my Head | 74 |
Homage to Homi Bhabha | 76 |
Meeting Lumumba | 80 |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | 82 |
Encounters with John Weyth | 84 |
Undoubtedly Its Bad Manners | 87 |
Only Coffee for R K Narayan | 88 |
Coming to My Help | 89 |
Nawab Ali Yavar Jung | 90 |
Nixon Kissinger and Indira | 93 |
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance | 100 |
Meeting Nehru Courtesy Canadian P M | 107 |
The Last Supper | 110 |
Life After Death | 114 |
Kamaladevi Chattopadhya | 116 |
Justice Hidayatullah | 120 |
Sweet Revenge with Kissinger | 122 |
Reward from JRD | 124 |
Opening The Crevices of The Heart | 127 |
Learning What Poverty means | 129 |
Still I dont understand | 130 |
The Ultimate Offering | 133 |
God Hanuman | 135 |
Getting Over with Stuttering | 136 |
Meeting Boyhood Love Sulochana | 137 |
Kamath the Popular Palmist | 139 |
Out of Breath at La Paz | 141 |
Would Rather Fail Then | 142 |
Death of a Friend | 146 |
End of Lifes Dream | 149 |
Meeting Boyhood Hero | 174 |
Astrological Prediction | 177 |
From the Journalists Diary | 181 |
Publishing Article in Mysindia | 183 |
Joining Free Press Journal | 187 |
First Assignment An Exclusive | 191 |
Learn Typewriting or Quit | 195 |
Learning to Write Editorials | 197 |
Lessons in Writing Edits | 199 |
Knighted as Editor | 202 |
At FPJ Be Thick Skinned | 204 |
Dom Moraes A Sports Writer | 206 |
Not Yet Destined to Die | 209 |
Stunned Natarajan Reciting Browning | 213 |
Bharat Darshan | 216 |
Exposing the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh | 218 |
A Titan Passes Away | 222 |
Prediction Comes True | 223 |
Invitation to Visit U S A | 229 |
Menons Marathon Speech at the U N | 231 |
Refuse to Reveal Sources | 234 |
am Under Watch | 236 |
Sheikh Mujibur Rehman | 238 |
Story of Sunken Submarine | 240 |
Top Secret Journal Gratis | 241 |
Sensational Report on Pakistan | 242 |
Return to Old Lady of Boribunder | 244 |
Geetas Poems | 246 |
Sharing Mutual Dislike | 248 |
Articles on Indira and Rajiv | 250 |
Brickbats and Bouquets | 252 |
Faceless Editor Recognised | 255 |
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