MEMOIRS have always been a battleground of conflicting interpretation. Whether it was the very Gallic drama created by De Gaulle's controversial memoirs, or even the debates surrounding British royal 'peeping tomes', telling a 'true' story is often subject to definition. Manya Wodehousian escapade has centred on the inveterate memoir-writer Sir Galahad Threepwood where fellow members of the Drones Club have even risked death to stop the moving finger from writing. Maneka Gandhi's defamation suit against KhushwantSingh's autobiography is an example of a once close friendship further estranged because of the spilling, she would have us believe, of some defamatory beans.