Neeraj Gupta

The serious side of comedian Jaspal Bhatti

A year ago, on the evening of October 24 in the US, when a friend’s call from New Jersey informed me about Jaspal Bhatti’s death, I was hit by the flashback of my lively introduction to him in that electrical engineering design class of July 1974 when the professor had turned 10 of us out to get our drawing sheets from the market. Neeraj Gupta writes