A nose for Mr Suraiya

You know him as Jug but his real name is Jagdish Suraiya. Jug is a moniker conferred by his elder sister, Hemu, after the Archies comic character Jughead Jones. But Bunny definitely seems to be his wife’s actual name. We’ve only met infrequently, the last time being outside the Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square, yet I’ve got to know Jug fairly intimately through his autobiographical reflections, the clumsily named JS & The Times of My Life: A Worm’s-Eye View of Indian Journalism (Tranquebar Press, Rs 495), which I’ve just finished reading.

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