Ben Affleck, accepts the award for best picture for “Argo,” as the cast and crew look on during the Oscars in Los Angeles-AP

Ben Affleck, accepts the award for best picture for “Argo,” as the cast and crew look on during the Oscars in Los Angeles-AP

Ben Affleck, accepts the award for best picture for “Argo,” as the cast and crew look on during the Oscars in Los Angeles-AP

Columnists

You are a well-known person. How difficult is it for a celebrity to find balance in normal life when one is under constant public scrutiny? Would you have preferred a normal life, like many others? Harleen

When I spent some 18 months in London in 1995-96 in the role of a foreign correspondent for an Indian newspaper, there was one issue that dominated “high politics” in Westminster: the European Union.