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Inder Malhotra

Over the years there has been a surge of literary talent in Indian Foreign Service. More diplomats, retired and serving, are writing fiction and non-fiction than ever before. One creative member of the service, at an early stage in his career, has already become a millionaire without ever having been a slumlord.

Nearly 45 years ago — barely five weeks before the 1965 War between India and Pakistan, to be exact — early on a Monday morning I took a bus in the English countryside to return to London for work. There were hardly half-a-dozen

May.12 : ALTHOUGH some of the unavoidable legislative work, such as passage of the Finance Bill and even the introduction of the controversial Nuclear Liability Bill, was somehow gone through, the alm