Jug Suraiya is a prominent Indian journalist, author and columnist. He is best known as a satirist and columnist. Suraiya is a former editorial opinion editor and associate editor of the Times of India.
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And yet, everything that impacted on his life appeared on the pages of first the youth magazine Junior Statesman, and later, the hoary Times of India. The chapters in this book are told in the same voice as his regular columns. The characters they describe—some well-known to us, some not—will remain immortal in our minds. Suraiya is the first Asian to have won the Grand Prize for Travel Writing awarded by the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA)

Review
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In this auto-biography Jug takes you through his work life, from the time he started as a correspondent for the Junior Statesman(JS) to being in charge for the edit page of TOI, (arguably) one of the largest selling daily in India. As you would expect from a veteran journalist, he has plenty of stories to tell and being Jug, they have to be funny.

As Jug takes you through the highlights in his career, you see the transformation of India journalism from that of elitist big brother to that of pandering populist business. You get to relive the major events of the recent past (Princess Diana's car crash, emergency, 9/11 etc.) from the perspective of a journalist. Among other things you get to know from up close some of the most eminent journalist of the past generation and also find out why all letters to the editor begin with "With reference to" in The Statesman.