Given the dismal state of the print media in India today, the days of the full-time state correspondent seem to be distant memories (my friend and comrade Prakash Kamat has on the other hand proven to be remarkably resilient!).

You see, she never grew up, and so they are not distant memories to her.

And all this greatness came to her when she had passed her fiftieth year, and when all the grace and bloom of youth were but a distant memory.