Lone Star Parson

  1947, that fated hour when the bankrupt Raj handed over to Asian Subcontinent. All yours, as it were, and you can't help but be moved ...

  What! I looked at the phone and it looked at me, broken and shattered like a mute parable of the state of our nation. Seriously, what isn...

Richard Wellesley famously said that India needed to be governed from a palace instead of a country house. That happened and the Presid...

There he was, on Peshawar's train station pavement, wearing a blazer, straw panama, grey slacks, some sort of dam tie and, to cap i...

One of the many benefits of Easter is that you get leftover lamb. What do you do with all that lamb? Cut it up and throw it in the po...

This one's for LL . The Ballad of East and West, by Kipling. Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lif...