Mr P.V. Narasimha Rao, despite his appointments with various city courts, has presented a grateful nation with a novel purporting to diagnose the national malaise. And Mr V.P. Singh, when not putting disparate coalitions together, is a furious and energetic painter eager to exhibit his talent. (Mr I.K. Gujral regularly quotes Ghalib and Faiz at CTBT-type seminars at the India International Centre, but, mercifully, he has spared us his own flirtations with the muse.)