Saturday 17 January 2009

And we said no publicity (17 January 2009)




As you, our readers, will know, we have been greeted everywhere we have been with handshakes and requests for pictures on cameras and camera phones – but we don’t mind these from our adoring public. But the reason we have been travelling in such out of the way places is that we are sick of the paparazzi following our every move and selling the pictures to the tabloids. We have had one narrow escape when Helga at Helga’s Folly in Kandy asked where she knew us from, but so far we have effectively been successful - until today. This morning, we open The Hindu, the countrywide Indian National English language newspaper with a circulation of 1.7 million only to see a large picture of ourselves on page three… How on earth has this happened – we must speak to our agent.
We attach a picture of the newspaper for your perusal. (The Hindu, Page 3, Saturday January 17, 2009)