Unlike everyone I know, have always liked Arnab Goswami. Why? There's probably an explanation. Haven't dug into it. Known him since 2005, when he was starting a news channel in Bombay, while some of us were launching a newspaper under the same group. He liked using the word 'Chief' in his messages, I remember — a very Lutyens' Delhi-media thing to do then.

Of course, this isn't to establish peerage. Can't. Can only look up in shock and awe at someone who's established a R1,200 crore plus empire, from essentially a podcast, a radio show on TV! From a skill that, to the best of my knowledge, is ad-libbing — stringing together grammatically flawless sentences, for an impromptu monologue, without slur, stammer, hesitation, deviation, repetition.