My dear course-mate and friend (for the sake of anonymity let’s just call him PVS) recently touched 60 years. PVS let it slip in, that it would please him if I could accompany him for a trip to the South Luangwa National Park, Zambia, for a Safari. I agreed, not…
Month: December 2025
How to speak like a sailor in three minutes! A guide to naval terms
In the year 2001, I was ‘detailed to volunteer’ by the Navy to write a piece on naval terms for the ‘Midday’ (05 Feb. Edit Page). I therefore am quite an established writer – a slightly more polished contemporary of Dr Shashi Tharoor even. Though the passage of time has…