Occidentally Yours Somnath Batabyal How I became a television expert Somnath Batabyal It was an uneventful sort of day. I must have done the usual things; go to the University in the morning, read in the library for a while, and then in the late afternoon after a game of squash, come back to the room, hoping to get some writing done. London was freezing and the thought of going out in the evening was hardly inviting. I had settled down with a book when my mother called on the phone, hysterical. Have you seen the news? No, I replied, slightly panicky. Mumbai is being attacked, she said. The present...