Sunday Sentiments

• HH ASQUITH, ON THE PRECIPICE OF PROPRIETY

  Published On September 15, 2024

  These days, in India, we’re accustomed to history as fiction but what we’re not familiar with is tantalizingly-crafted historical fiction. That’s what Robert Harr...
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• THE GOOD LIFE OF THE RAJ IN A CALCUTTA HOTEL AND CLUB

  Published On September 8, 2024

  First impressions, I admit, can be misleading but they can also be indelible. That’s certainly true of my trip to ‘Calcutta’ last weekend. I don’t know the city...
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• A STRANGE ACCUSATION, AND MALICE IN FAUJILAND

  Published On September 1, 2024

  Sometimes it can be a topsy-turvy crazy world. A case of a cartoon from MAD magazine transforming into reality. That’s what seems to have happened to the folks next d...
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• THE MAN WHO KNEW HOW TO RETRIEVE LOST MOMENTS

  Published On August 25, 2024

  I have known of Natwar Singh virtually all my life but the first time I really got to know him was probably in 1976. He was Deputy High Commissioner in London. I was th...
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