Non-name dropping

So here's a tally of sorts. I've lunched with a Nobel Prize winner; had drinks with a Pulitzer Prize winner; chatted with two Booker Prize winners and been bar-hopping with a Booker runner up; dined with one of the world's more famous sportsmen; nearly run over an even more famous sportsman in my car; passed within a foot of a still more famous sportsman; visited topless bars with a Bollywood director; dined with an Indian central government Minister; dined with and then took a ride from the host of a hit TV show; travelled with a Magsaysay Award winner, lunched with another; played the piano at the house of a Bollywood star; shaken hands with one US President and two US Presidential candidates, one of whom turned down my offer of a hamburger.

You?

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Addendum:

(Bowing to demand and sentiment this post has generated -- judging by the bits of email wandering into my inbox -- I offer this addendum two days earlier than I had intended).

I've lunched while watching Florence Griffith-Joyner winning the 100m at the Seoul Olympics on TV; watched once-PM of India VP Singh speak at a public meeting; felt the wind in my face as Rishi Kapoor drove past in his car; passed within a foot of a photograph of Cybil Shepherd as a friend looked at it in a magazine; passed within six inches of a sketch of Preity Zinta a kid I know was making in his diary; seen Sushmita Sen's back disappear up a staircase two steps at a time; slept in the same hotel room Fidel Castro once declined to use; eaten peanuts as Ajit Wadekar came off the field after a Bombay league cricket match; walked on the pavement in front of a building Stephen Hawking once gave a speech in; collected the autograph of someone whose mother later took me to listen to Desmond Tutu.

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Addendum #2:

(Bowing to more demand and sentiment etc etc ... this addendum).

I've lunched with a woman who is not the French tennis player Amelie Mauresmo; spoken to a class of students, not one of whom was Russell Crowe; at least once not played croquet with Saif Ali Khan; taken a train to Delhi in which Joseph Stiglitz was not in my coach, nor the next, nor in fact on the train at all; not taken a flight to Bangalore in which Sridevi travelled; not taken another flight to Bangalore in which Sridevi didn't travel; twice eaten at a restaurant in Bombay when Glenn McGrath wasn't eating there; walked through a railway level crossing and noticed that the large car waiting on the other side didn't have Margaret Thatcher in it; thrice borrowed books from friends that make no mention of Elmore Leonard; shared a taxi with a woman who didn't look anything like Calatrava.

You?