a story along a quiet arc in the thames
how you never really know a story, do you? i was probably 11 when i heard about lord profumo and christine keeler
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maharanis, construction workers, ics officers – a saree wearer’s longish ramble
six yards, five and a half metres, sometimes nine yards, of material. you have to wrap it around yourself. tuck here, tuck there, make the pleats, hold the pallu in place. it must be so difficult. one must sit still or move...
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have you seen the koh-i-noor?
again a clamour for its return starts. and now i am older, even if not wiser, and i must see...
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