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Nobody can dim your star or stop your sun

New Delhi, India, 28 January 2002, late afternoon. There is a nagging light that I have been trying to switch off in vain.

I arrived in Mumbai, or Bombay as we knew the place in our youth, at dawn. I transferred flights and eventually touched down in the mysterious Delhi in the late morning, tired like a hound.

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