Ratnesh Mathur, the man who befriended Leonard Cohen in Mumbai

Mathur's admiration for Cohen had started as a teen when his cousin gave him an album

Ratnesh Mathur is a rare kind of “Cohenologist”. Since the advent of the internet in India, the columnist-turned-banker had been active on the forum Blackening Pages, where fans of Leonard Cohen converge even today for exhaustive deconstructions of his work. But not many members of that club ever met the singer-songwriter, and Mathur is further alone in having struck an acquaintance with Cohen that continued for 18 years until the celebrated musician’s recent death. For much of the 1990s, the writer of songs such as “Suzanne” and ...

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Ratnesh Mathur, the man who befriended Leonard Cohen in Mumbai