The Interview A short story by Anirudh Deshpande Associate Professor Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, Delhi University. I Clad in night clothes, unbathed, bearded with shoulder length black hair, Sameer Ranade, Ph.D. in modern Indian history, approached his retired well settled father with an air of false nonchalance. The Brigadier had settled in his favorite white cane armchair in the whitewashed veranda of his bungalow on a July morning. He saw his languorous son walk towards him from the corner of his eyes shrouded in thick grey eye brows. The gentle monsoon breeze caressed by the drops of