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GOT AN IDEA? Speak up,” shouted a poster as I entered THE WEEK’s editorial office in January 1995. I had to report to Editor-in-Charge T.R. Gopalakrishnan, who was on the interview board that had sized me up a few months earlier. He was the one who asked the most number of questions, many of them related to the books I had read. Gopal, as I came to call him, was particularly interested in the one I was then reading, The Life and Times of Yukio Mishima. “What does the author say about Mishima’s concept of hara-kiri?” Gopal asked, and I launched into a monologue on how it was authentic, sincere and different from the western concept of suicide, which was full of falsehood and dishonesty. He patiently listened to my impetuous reply, and for some reason decided to hire me.
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