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THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER
After some further shopping, Rajesh and I visit the builders who are renovating his house and who have moved him into temporary accommodation which is very nice. Two days ago, the toilet hadrubble strewn over the place but it was, in Rajesh's estimation, just two hours work. It was still there today. I delighted in the name of the company: Bakshi Builders. |
| We go into the city and see our good friend, Sudhir Bhutani, who takes us to the very impressive Meridien Hotel where we are frisked on arrival - as happens at all top hotels these days - and a sign says Weapons Not Allowed... The Press Conference has been changed from 6pm to 5.30pm and Gautam eventually arrives at 6.15pm, an entrance made later by Rajesh insisting that, as he knows Gautam well, he will stop him to have a quick chat. So, Gambhir arrives with the good and great of Apollo Hospitals and cannot get through as Rajesh knabs him and I take some photos. The man's self-belief is |
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| remarkable and I am left wishing that I could be half as confident. The Press Conference is impressive but I resist Rajesh's implored pleas to join the cameramen with my small digital camera reminding him that I am an attendee not a cameraman. I do later join a most mpressive melee and nearly bring all the cameramen down falling over their assorted wires and cables but we get photos and a brief chat with Gautam. I later find that Rajesh has taken a very good photo with Gautam and all the hospital people with me, completely oblivious to whom I am standing with and with absolutely no right to be there, in the background. Who knows? I may have been in the papers the next morning. We are back late and Rajesh has work to do, Australia having recovered against South Africa from 21 for 9 to reach 47. At 10pm, exhausted, I am asked if I would like to go to the nearby Gurudwara to experience celebrations for Guru Nanak. |
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