Who hasn’t heard of Sheikh Chilli? He has been the butt of many a joke in Delhi over the centuries and like Mirza Poiya has come to symbolise a person weak in body and mind. But there was a difference ...

As a child, my favourite bedtime story used to be about a simpleton called Sheikh Chilli, whose life was a never-ending saga of goof-ups. I knew that these stories were fictitious and that no such ...