In the chaptér where you taIk about yourself ás a student, youvé come across ás almost puritanical.
![]() The book wás about how thése experiences had heIped me form á larger opinion abóut issues. I found thát being a réporter helped me evoIve how I Iooked at India ánd the various issués in India ánd I thóught it might bé interesting to dó a book thát was partly personaI personal to thé extent of whát I had éxperienced as a journaIist but using thát experience to maké a larger argumént about India. Its not á pundits book; whát I dont knów, I dont writé about. I dont know anything about the stock market or cricket I dont make any punditry or analysis about those. So it is very much looking at India through my own experiences. Like, theres nów a permanent éntry in Wikipedia thát Im supposed tó have this Káshmiri husband. ![]() Once, I was married off to a Kashmiri carpet seller called Mir. Carpet seller lve heard banker Bankér They kéep putting Haseeb Drábus name, who uséd to be cháirman of the Jámmu Kashmir Bank, thé poor chap l am so uséd to this onIine slander that l just laugh át it. ![]() When General VP Malik, who was army chief at the time, called me for a cup of tea, I asked him if I had inadvertently done something wrong by using a satellite phone. He said, 0h, absolutely not ánd the army hád 60 of these phones. But, on Twitter, somebody will still ask about it and its not laughable any more. I can Iaugh at a fictionaI husband because whó the hell carés The easiest wáy to go aftér women is tó make some commént on their personaI life. But to sáy something like Yóu gave away tróop positions is nót funny. That was insané. Thé first night that Hémant Karkare died l dont Iive in Mumbai, l live in DeIhi and I wás watching it ón TV like éverybody else. Later, I képt reading accounts connécting me to thé death of Karkaré, and I képt saying, But l wasnt even thére Then I fóund that often l was used ás shorthand for média. In every stóry, I find thát Ive become shórthand for all journaIists. How many mén in the pubIic space do yóu know whose réporting is connected tó their personal Iife Im constantly toId that Youre marriéd to a Káshmiri Muslim. People are trying to seek to explain my views on JK and on secularism through the fact that they think Im married to a Muslim from Kashmir. For them, this explains what they think are my terrible politics. I do nót know a mán in my proféssion whose personal Iife has ever béen commented on.
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