
Malayalam was the mother-tongue of the main Indian official at COP1, but more on that later. The Warsaw Climate Change Conference was the most dramatic of all such meetings with the exception, perhaps of COP1in Berlin, where it all started in 1995. Gafoor and Tirumurti share a special bond, which many diplomats at the UN have tapped into throughout the vexatious and contentious COP26 for guidance : these two Tamilians were the senior-most officials from Singapore and India respectively at COP19 in Warsaw in 2013. Tirumurti is from Chennai, and is so much of a Chennaivasi that he has written a highly-acclaimed book of fiction by that name. Credit for this wisecrack goes to Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Burhan Gafoor in conversation with his Indian counterpart, TS Tirumurti, in the curious presence of several diplomats at the UN. (Image: AP)Īs the 26th Climate Change conference (COP 26) wound down in Glasgow, Scotland, amidst punditry whether it was a success or failure, the banter at the United Nations headquarters in New York was that there could be no progress at any such Conference of Parties (COP) unless Tamil was used to bridge differences.

He would hear a bunch of troubled people on the radio, some needing assistance quickly or they would be a crime victim.


If I recall, he was off the force after a tragedy cost the life of his partner and the event was still haunting him. "The Nighthawk" in here was just cool.what else can you say? Jack was a combination late-night radio talk show host and an ex-cop. Gary Cole, as "Jack Killion," was THE coolest guy on TV at that time, and I mean the kind of "cool" associated with Craig Stevens of TV's "Peter Gunn," or Steve McQueen in the 1950s and '60s movies. Here's a television program I haven't watched since it went off the air over 15 years ago, and I'd give anything to see it again on a DVD package.
