Tenth year of DDT
IT wasnine years ago, on a Wednesday morning that DDT was born. And these were the opening words with which I began the column - Welcome to DDT, yet another experiment in TIOL's incessant endeavour to provide you with the best.
The experiment continues unabated - come rain or shine. And I am thankful to the Government, which provides the fodder every day to keep DDT healthy, the netizens who begin their day with the click on the DDT image and keep writing to me, my Editorial team which keeps egging me day in and day out, my family who thinks I am doing some secretive pieces during the graveyard shift and those hundreds of calls that I have received all these years, some pleasant and some giving me a peace of their mind. And to my two colleagues whose job is to find fault with me and the draft DDT - what a sadistically pleasurable job they do - with perfection!
Thanks to all of you, I did not know how these nine years passed by without my keyboard giving away or my heart & mind telling me to STOP.
Over the years, DDT has achieved a few laurels - it made an entry in the Limca Book of Records, 2012 and also in the Limca Book of Records, 2013 as the longest running daily online column on tax matters.