Lapierre was staying at the Trident in Mumbai. And he invited me to have lunch with him. I went imagining a fine wining and dining experience at the hotel’s French cuisine restaurant. Instead, Lapierre summoned me up to his suite. Where he was perched on the window sill. With his back turned to the magnificent sweep of Marine Drive and the restless Arabian Sea. He was an extremely funny man. To me, he said in wry amusement with a naughty smile, “I asked for a table by the window. Look where they seated me.” Our lunch was Chicken Tandoori, Butter Naan, and Coke.
He was dressed in his trademark pin-striped blue shirt and straw hat. His feet propped on the back of a chair to keep his balance. I thought he looked and ate an NYPD detective from a Hollywood movie of the 1970s. It turned out he loved Indian food. “The diversity of the cuisines is astounding,” he said. And he was pleased that Indian food was available all over the world. “Back in my hometown in the South of France, there is an Indian restaurant that goes by the extraordinary name of the man who undertook hunger fasts to obtain freedom for India. It is called Gandhi. Which is a paradox. But the food there is good.”
About Mark Manuel
The above thoughts/content has been proudly copied from the wall of Sir Mark Manuel. Being interviewing almost every role model of this country and going stronger each day. Mark Manuel is a respected Mumbai editor, writer, and columnist.
With over three decades of journalism in leading publications. This includes the Free Press Journal, Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Mid-Day, and Afternoon. He is famous for his brilliant pen interviews. He himself is a TEDx speaker.
Further
His interviews have been featured in several leading media houses. They include the Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, BBC, and Network 18. Almost every famous person has been interviewed by him in the country from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali. His first book is just out. It’s titled Moryaa Re! It is a crime thriller that is perhaps the country’s first police procedural. He began his career covering crime. And in a tribute to his experience and knowledge of this beat.
Several distinguished officers of the Mumbai Police and its Crime Branch collaborated with him to make this book possible. Amitabh Bachchan wrote the forward in a statement of friendship for Mark Manuel and admiration for his work.
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