Salaam Sam

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Over a year back, on a rather uneventful news day when I was left to meet the many bureaucrats one hopes to get a tip-off for a story from... I got a call from my editor. The National Affairs Editor at CNN-IBN was calling to assign me a story. My assignment for the afternoon was a rather urgent one. In the call that he made, my editor also warned me that I may end up getting no bytes for the story but I was still to try. My only hope was to seek help from the defence correspondent in the office who knew my story subject well. Sam Manekshaw was unwell. Out of the hospital but not quite alright. We were to do a story. The defence correspondent gave me the requisite details. Names... Addresses even phone numbers. The job at hand was to go to Hauz Khas, the....