Anant's blog: Mumbai Marathon loses to Jyoti Basu

I'm in a hotel room in Coimbatore.It’s Sunday morning. The Economic Times, I’m given to understand, is not distributed in Coimbatore on Sundays. The Times of India is available, I’m given to understand, only by early afternoon. No Hindustan Times. The Hindu is available early morning, so I read it.No crosswords to do, though. I refuse to acknowledge The Hindu crossword as one.