Organiser’s Deepavali issue published last week (dated 3.11.2013) is a Special one on India’s Hundred Years of Cinema. The issue has prominently carried a longish interview with me. The journal’s Editor, Prafulla Ketkar, accompanied by his correspondent, Pramod Kumar, had recorded this interview a fortnight back. I notice that both the Telegraph as well as the Amrit Bazar Patrika have carried news items about my interview.Two years back when I published a compilation of blogposts I had written in the preceding two years I requested M.J. Akbar, one of India’s most outstanding journalists to write the Foreword. And he had responded to my request with an excellent write-up. The concluding paragraph of this four-page write-up read:
“This collection will not clarify every query about the career of Lal krishna Advani, but it will certainly answer one. He has held two portfolios in a Union Government, once as minister of information and Broadcasting under Morarji Desai, and twice as home minister under Atal Bihari Vajpayee. His mind was embedded in the home ministry, but his heart belonged to Information and Broadcasting.”
Actually, it was as I & B Minister that I had met Akbar for the first time, and that too in Pakistan
