Om Namah Shivaya. After a wakeful night, in fits and starts of course, to observe the Night of Shiva, the third of the Triumvirate Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara of the Hindu pantheon, I was in no mood to write this column. However, the morning before Shiva’s night there was an interesting event at the Rotary West organised by the Mysore Literary Association. It was to launch Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh’s book, a biography, on our former first High Commissioner of India in England and the Defence Minister V.K. Krishna Menon — A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon.
