by Tarquin Hall
39 It is also a fact that Delhi police departments do not have crime photographers at their disposal. Thus they employ freelancer photographers who have not undergone professional training nor have access to professional equipment.
40 An old joke goes that when the Americans reached the moon they found one Sardar sitting there selling spare parts for space vehicles.
41 A small black one is best.
42 For foreign readers not knowing of Bappi, he is a music composer in Bollywood and known as Disco King.
43 It has been brought to my attention by Elizabeth Rani that the spelling of this word should be “trolley” yet on the carts themselves the word is always spelt “trolly”.
44 Hence India has the highest rate of road deaths in the world, the number being twice that of China.
45 Goes without saying that technology should not be relied upon to too great an extent. There remains no substitute for old fashioned sleuthing. Technology is a means to an end, but not end only. Furthermore, technology can often prove unreliable whereas Vish Puri never fails.
46 Unfortunately the bioscope is a dying form of entertainment, but can still be found at some fairgrounds and in rural outlying areas.
47 Dating to middle of 15 century or thereabouts, Lodhis were Pashtuns from north who ruled much of north India prior to Mughal invasion.
48 Commonly known outside of India as “licence plates”.
49 Some reviewers of Mr. Tarqin’s books have compared my moustache to that of Hercule Poirot. It is nothing like it, in fact. He was Belgium where as I am Punjabi and thus my moustache is much thicker and generally more distinct in character.
50 It should be grey in colour, with half-sleeve shirt and matching trousers. Available from GoodLuck Garments, Shahdara, Delhi.
51 Jugaad can also refer to a low-cost improvised vehicle, typically powered by simple diesel engines. I once came across a jugaad adapted from an airport trolley. Only thing was, it didn’t have brakes, requiring the driver to jump out and stop it.
52 Source: Wikipedia.
53 Thank the God I spotted a golgappa seller and turned suddenly, otherwise I would have expired on the spot.
1 Bloomberg, 9 January 2015.
2 One such case is the Dochipura case in Varanasi. A land dispute concerning two acres only it has been with the courts since 1878!
3 From article entitled, Why the Backlog of Over 3 Crore Cases in Indian Courts will Continue to Grow, Scroll.in, 9 October 2015.
4 Scroll.in, 9 October 2015.
5 Bloomberg, 9 January 2015.
6 Report No. 245.
7. The Honourable Editor, Times of India, saw fit to publish a somewhat shorter version of this letter, but original is reproduced here.
8 2008 murder of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar and a Nepali servant Hemraj at her home in Noida. It is my firm belief the crime has never been solved and stands as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of modern India.