Dehradun, April 14 -- A still from 'Saga of an Icon' courtesy Kshitij Sharma

By: Ganesh Saili

Looking back, I often try to figure out when I first met Anand K Jauhar, or 'Nandu' as his school friends affectionately called him.

'Let's grab a quick coffee!' my wife, Abha, had said.

I remember it was a cold winter morning. She and I were in the Library area; we panted up the ramp to the Savoy and bumped into Nandu, who had returned after running the Indira Restaurant in London's Marble Arch.

The year? It was 1980.

Come summer or winter, the bar became a watering hole where author Ruskin Bond and I, over the years, met a galaxy of characters: film stars, rogues, politicians, business tycoons, fly-by-night operators and fading beauty que...