The Interview A short story by Anirudh Deshpande IV Sameer entered the Principal’s room and said “Good Afternoon” to the phalanx of interviewers. He was waved to a hard wooden chair kept four inches below the committee platform. His height compensated for this stratagem of official humiliation. Principal Dr. Harish Mohan Shukla, aka Anjaanaa his nom de plume among Hindi kavis and lekhaks, sat below a large black and white photograph of the modest Prime Minister. On the right bottom corner of this photograph was a small drawing of a soldier in olive green holding a 303 Enfield Rifle. The