"My father taught history at Calcutta University but he had so many diverse interests. He was also a film critic, a th…"

"The gaudy minstrel of the morn."

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here."

"“…in the mid nineteenth century disaster overtook Turkabad, in the shape of what was perhaps the last massed forcible…"

"The original name of the Indo/Iranian Goddess was Sarasvati ‘she who possesses waters’. In India she continued to be …"

"In Sharifabad the dogs distinguished clearly between Moslem and Zoroastrian, and were prepared to go, with a diffiden…"

"A similar fate must have overtaken many Iranian villages in the past, among those which did not willingly embrace Isl…"

"The small house stands on its own, completely isolated. The houses on either side have been reduced to high piles of …"

"The teacher is still basking in the beauty of his own creativity, when he realises that his only listeners are the wa…"

"Satisfied, filled with the warmth of the bright sun, the birds were singing cheerfully, oblivious of the war taking o…"