“Is there any politician who is a poet or artist of any sort?” Anu asks me. Anu – Anushri is her official name – is a former student of mine. She gave up science though she was good at it and took up literature for graduation after which she pursued a journalism course with a prominent media house and then became a journalist. There are a few of them, I tell her. I name Vaclav Havel and our very own Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Anu thinks I am joking when...