Think Notes

While the sessions at Think 2013 were thought-provoking, the real action was offstage.

While the sessions at Think 2013, the Tehelka event touted as the one stop shop for intellectual talk, were thought-provoking, the real action was offstage. The event’s star speaker Robert De Niro, for instance, refused to really speak, mostly just grunting or offering monosyllabic answers to questions, only becoming more of an enigma by the time he walked off stage. You might blame his reticence on the events of the night before his session, when he was accosted by enthusiastic Indians at a lavish party. After shaking his hand vigorously, they tried to hold onto him for pictures as he stormed off the hotel lawns. Other than that, there was director Shekhar Kapoor smiling sagely at every corner and actor Farhan Akhtar singing a duet with Remo which made us reassess his singing chops. But the strangest scene featured celebrity journalist and editor Tina Brown, clutching her purse and standing alone near a stack of plates as she animatedly polished off her dessert.

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