Suite memories
Not just the annual day out with the family when she was young, the Taj Mahal Hotel also provided the setting for Sharda Ugra's grand plan to interview Imran Khan
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
Not just the annual day out with the family when she was young, the Taj Mahal Hotel also provided the setting for Sharda Ugra's grand plan to interview Imran Khan. In her blog on the India Today website, she checks in to a world of happy memories as she recounts how she used the Taj interviews - seven over two years - to beef up her CV and land her first job as sports reporter.
The Imran Khan interview was sold to the Afternoon Despatch & Courier newspaper for which we got paid Rs 200. This financial windfall was celebrated with a lavish gesture we believed emperors would struggle to match. We ascended the marble steps of the Taj foyer (more jauntily than we had ever done), walked right past our favourite lobby sofas, past what we imagined to be the astonished posse of security and sashayed into the Shamiana.