Goodbye to all this

In fact, even within the fiction group, there are bad writers who have produced good books and good writers who have produced bad books

After four and half years of this column I have decided to cry off now. Enough said, at least by me. 

To round it all off I have been asked to write, as a farewell to this column, about the five or six best English language authors I had ever read. Nasty, but it has served to focus my mind. It has, however, been a bit of tussle. 

I could have written about Gandhiji, Sardar Patel, Nehru, Golwalkar, Keynes and Karl Marx. But although all these people wrote, and wrote well, none of them was a writer. 

Indeed, I ruled out all producers