'Notings are an integral part of a file, and access to them is crucial ... Why are you rewarding cowardice? ... You are cloaking partiality, irresponsibility and dishonesty'
His Salmanness got this one right: "The difference between Delhi and Calcutta," he observed to a fellow-panelist two years ago, "is that in Calcutta they drop the names of books and in Delhi they drop the names of authors."
