In this book, acollection of obituaries written over the years, the celebrated author presents the dead in death,as in life -- good, bad or ugly. Be it on the twilight hours of Bhutto, the goryend of Sanjay Gandhi, the sycophantic M. O. Mathai, the Marxist millionaire RajniPatel, the overbearing Lord Mountbatten, or on his pet Alsatian Simba, eachobituary bears out his irreverence or affection.