He came, he saw, and he captivated 'em all.

Twenty minutes behind schedule on Wednesday evening, Shashi Tharoor enters a hall at the Indian Merchants' Chambers (IMC) packed with representatives of the print and electronic media. What happened in the next five minutes is usually experienced by the Shah Rukh Khans and Hrithik Roshans: the shutterbugs went on a clicking spree, and the cameramen of the electronic media, feeling left out, had to assert their presence with a mild rumbling. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]