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No one stood taller among the pique of Indian political columnists than Kuldip ‘Lamboo’ Nayar. Ironically, he received that nickname from the shortest of Indian prime ministers - Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Born in Sialkot, Nayar lived a long life, dying in New Delhi in 2018 at the age of 95.
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He had a career crammed brimful with history. Initially an Urdu press reporter, he served as editor of The Statesman, saw prison during Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s Emergency (1975–77), became Indian High Commissioner to Great Britain in 1990, and sat in his country’s Rajya Sabha in August 1997.
His syndicated columns appeared in over 80 newspapers.
Just before his death, he compiled pen-portraits of Leaders and Icons from Jinnah to Modi (2019). [He felt tempted to rename his book ‘Heroes, Neros, and Zeros’.] That slim volume included his recollections of Indian and Pakistani leaders – M.K.
Gandhi to N. Modi, and from M.A. Jinnah to Z.A. Bhutto. He