It is often very difficult to write about your friends. The task becomes even more challenging when you are writing about a friend whose political views differ from your own. Arnab Goswami is one such friend.
Way before the Aam Aadmi Party came to power in Delhi, Arnab and his TV channel spared no effort in rubbishing it.
He didn’t let go of any opportunity to criticise the party and sometimes slammed it after getting the facts wrong. In the past one year, we have even stopped interacting with his channel. Once in a while, we would take part in phone-ins, but I have stopped doing even that.
However, on Tuesday, when the news of his resignation broke, I could not stop myself from calling him. I got no reply, but he called back the next morning. The usual hot-headedness, the same ferocity. Suddenly, it didn’t feel like we were standing on opposite poles of a political ideology.