The things you learn if you only listen carefully! Struck by the cool picture of former Cong MP and rocker Milind Deora looking tanned and very transcontinental with the celebrated and glam Arianna Huffington nee Stassinopoulou (whose widely read and influential news site The Huffington Post was acquired by AOL for $315 million in 2011), we called his mum for details.

“Actually Arianna and Murli, Milind’s dad, have been friends for decades,” said Hema, Milind’s elegant bridge-champion mother about the media whiz and her husband, Congressman Murli Deora, a man legendary for his role on the national stage of the India of the eighties. “She had come to Rajasthan, maybe as a student, as part of the Peace Corps and somehow she had got to know Murli and visited us when she was in Mumbai.