Pack Up! The call the entire crew was waiting for came at about 2 a.m. on a sultry August night in Delhi. The crew, my colleague Vivian Fernandes, and I had been on location for almost two hours and we were tired. The only man completely unruffled was our guest, a senior member of the Cabinet, who didn’t seem to mind that the entire exercise in enervating heat would only give him two minutes on air. As we thanked him again for agreeing to meet us past midnight, he said, “Arrey, I thought if you boys were willing to work so hard, why couldn’t I?”
(This story appears in the 04 June, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)