27 06, 2025

Anglo Indians : Prejudice and my own experience of it .

By |June 27th, 2025|Categories: Biography, History, India, Kennington, Lost History, Madras Courier, Mixed relationships, Novels and short stories|0 Comments

https://madrascourier.com/insight/anglo-indians-a-story-of-hybridity-music-legacy/ This feature in today's Madras Courier rightly celebrates the legacy of Anglo- Indians in India. The White Mughals who traded with India before Empire were exploitative and greedy but they were not racist. They enjoyed the Indian way of

22 01, 2025

How to stop the marginalisation of minority groups.

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In todays i Yasmin Alibhai Brown writes about British Citizens of Pakistani ancestry and how they regard the grooming gangs. The conclusion was that most people of that background despise them and are distressed by the suffering of the exploited

18 01, 2025

Simon Schama and I  

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Simon Schama and I   https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026zyn/simon-schamas-story-of-us-series-1-2-whose-britain-is-it-anyway I may not have Simon Schama’s brains and erudition but, watching episode 2 of 'Whose Britain is it any way' made me realise that we share the same attitude to the evolution of this

18 01, 2025

The Water of Life: Bill Nighy, Victor Glynn and I

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The Water of Life: Bill Nighy, Victor Glynn and I   Do you find that life is like water –rivers flowing alongside crossing, meeting and blending? Thursday was like that for me. The film producer Victor Glynn suggested I be