Pathankot Attack

I suddenly felt ‘old’ this morning when at 5 am I got an sms saying Murli Deora had passed away. Murlibhai was the first politician I became a ‘friend’ of: you could not but be a friend of the ever smiling Mumbai Congressman if you were a journalist in Mumbai 1980s. Murlibhai, who was then the city Congress chief, knew just about everyone in the city: he had friends and ‘contacts’ across party and ideological lines.