>> Wherever we have gone these past few days there’s been a collective sigh of dismay about the plight of Fareed Zakaria, the erstwhile journalist of Time and CNN international. This is always followed by ‘Poor Fareed’ and depending on the geography of the person uttering the words, an exclamation, which precedes ‘What was he thinking?’ The geography, of course, has to do with which station of the North-South Mumbai axis these words emanate from: Southwards of Haji Ali where young Zakaria attended the Cathedral school and resided in a Minister’s bungalow on Carmichael Road, the sympathy for one of Mumbai’s own — Mumbaicha mulga — the empathy afforded to the non–residential India‘s poster boy is palpable. However, the further away you drive from Churchgate, the dismay begins to peter out. We can bet you in Mumbra they probably don’t care either ways that one of India’s brightest young men have had to face such an ignominious exit in what until then was a brilliant career.