M Veerappa Moily is a poet and writer but at the low-profile book launch of his daughter's collection of poems at his residence, he made it a point to say he had not used his political connections to invite Tharoor as chief guest or Pavan Varma, the writer and former diplomat, to write the foreword for the book. Varma, who is now a part of the Janata Dal (United), took up Moily's clarification to say his presence should not be read as an alliance brewing between the JD (U) and the Congress. "I am here because I like what Hamsa Moily wrote." To which the ever-articulate Tharoor couldn't miss the opportunity to say they were all "allies in… good writing".
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