(Aug 7, 11:20pm)

Fifty-one page views in one day!

This mood-enhancing thing happened today.. seems finally my blog is restoring the stats it once commanded..

Many of you would say I am deriving pride in this, and that this is silly...

Frankly, pride to me is very closely linked to esteem and is based acutely on the humility and rightfulness of my own conduct.. besides the ability to exhibit grace in difficult circumstances..

So no, there's no element of pride here..

But yes, we do take some merriment out of small things sometimes.. It is one of those.. and for me who wishes to be an author and commercially successful, these are little indicator.. trifle ones as they are, though..

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I went for K Natwar Singh's book launch today... It was interesting... Singh is sharp... and agile.. To me, any ageing man who retains his nimbleness is a good example...

It fills me with a pleasant realisation that every age has its hue, and we all can make that more wonderful!

I wanted him to ask one question in the q/a session.. It would have been a considerable one..

"Had you not fallen out with Sonia Gandhi, would you ever leak that her renunciation of the PM's post was not driven by her inner voice as she famously claimed? Would you ever tell the world it was overridden by an adamant son who feared his mother's safety?"

It would have been interesting to note what he would say.. Probably, it could have made to page 1..

Sadly, I was in a crowd in the over-filled auditorium and not visible to the moderator perhaps..

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