One of my favourite novels is Mary Margaret Kaye’s The Far Pavilions. An epic romance set in 19thcentury British India, the novel is, despite its unabashedly orientalistic tone, a heart-warming story of forbidden love against all odds. The aristocratic British army officer, Ashton Pelham-Martyn falls in love with the beautiful princess Anjuli and rescues her from […]
I have written in the past of how, in many things, we desis remain unabashedly Anglophilic. Of course, the fascination is mutual, even if it is unequal. From the days of Richard Burton (who introduced straight-laced Victorians to Vatsyayana) and Rudyard Kipling (whose Mowgli and Kim remain the gold standards of impish boyhood) […]
Aficionados of the Queen’s English (does Her Maj qualify any longer?) might balk at the news that an Englishman opines that English is now spoken better by ‘foreigners’ than by the English! Poor spelling and grammar are, according to a university lecturer, all too common among native British students. It has been claimed […]
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