A dancer’s progress
In 1971, at the height of the Indo-Pakistan war, my parents took me with them to Bombay. I was ten and it was my first trip abroad. My father worked for Brooke Bond, and had ‘tea business’ to attend...
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In a grand history of the British empire — because that is what this book really is — you might expect more hand-wringing from a historian and Labour MP who has previously written a life of Engels....
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I knew, the minute my job was first mooted, on the steps of San Francesco church in the sun-drenched, mafia-infested Sicilian town of Noto, that I would be the last editor of the (printed)...
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PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 21; Indian English writer Amit Chaudhuri poses during portrait session held on September 21, 2014 in Paris, France. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)
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