I was now fixated on Israelis. News about Golda Meir and the inevitable comparison with Indira Gandhi, the secret visits of Moshe Dayan (he with the eyepatches) to India, and many other stories now came into focus. And then I started exploring Jewish writers; Saul Bellow and Isaac Singer are still my favourites. Later in life, when I came to Mumbai, and the Jew bug continued. I visited the local synagogues, discovered the legacy of David Sassoon (Flora Fountain, his library, and docks), read up on Nissim Ezekiel and his poems, was thankful for the leadership of Gen J F R Jacob, and even had a Jewish student.