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

25 06, 2025

 The Rise and Rise of Oxford Indie Book Fair. Why? Is it tapping into a need? 

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I’m one if the organisers of the Oxford Indie Book Fair. Our fairs are in Oxford in the University Examinations Halls and, on July 13, as the last event of the Oxford Festival of the Arts, in Magdalen College School

14 02, 2025

The Fifties : Don’t romanticise them not even on Valentine’s day!

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 The Fifties: Don't romanticise them not even on Valentine’s Day! Yesterday, I watched two one act plays by Terrence Rattigan at the Oxford Playhouse. They took me back to the fifties like a time machine! When I interviewed Sir Roger

18 01, 2025

Simon Schama and I  

By |January 18th, 2025|Categories: Biography, Cultural Appropriation, Events, History, India, Kennington, Lost History, Mixed relationships, Novels and short stories, Oxford|0 Comments

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