About the Book: Where Some Things are Remembered: Profiles and Conversations
Dom Moraes was not only one of Indias greatest poets, he was also an
extraordinary journalist and essayist. He could capture effortlessly the essence
of the people he met, and in every single profile in this sparkling collection
he shows how it is done. The Dalai Lama laughs with him and Mother Teresa
teaches him a lesson in empathy. Moraes could make himself at home with Laloo
Prasad Yadav, the man who invented the self-fulfilling controversy, and exchange
writerly notes with Sunil Gangopadhyaya. He was Indira Gandhis
biographer—painting her in defeat, post Emergency, and in