First Take

April 08, 2002 00:00 IST First Take -0001-11-30T00:00:00+05:53

At Outlook we keep making new discoveries. Like encountering the other side of attorney-general Soli Sorabjee. He has a quality few know of: he knows the best Parsi jokes in town which he narrated with elan at a dinner he hosted in the capital recently...While on parties, the maximum number are being hosted for Mark Tully these days. His cook has already started complaining that ‘saheb’ never eats at home...However, the bash of the fortnight was hosted by none other than Amar Singh to celebrate the birthday of his twin daughters. POTO did keep most of the high-profile political invitees stuck in the House, but the starry presence of Jackie Shroff and Karisma Kapoor made up for it. Aby Baby personally greeted every single guest at the entrance and Delhi’s big-time party-hopping bureaucrat Rajiv Talwar stuck to Anil Ambani as if by glue...