
I’m rather nervous
about my interview with Aatish Taseer. For all his almost courtly manners,
there’s an undercurrent of impatience, as if his mind’s racing with
observations, and filing them away for possible use in his future writing. And in
his place, I might be very tempted to caricature the ditzy reporter who called
to ask if Aurangazeb Road and Rajesh Pilot Marg were the same. Of course, that
would be a rather more charming description than an interviewer who apologised
through