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The Lost World Of Haji Baba

Karan Thapar recalls friends from a past Afghanistan HAJI Baba, 'Stick' Suleiman and Jahanara Jan used for me to typify Afghanistan: its colour and individuality, its romance......

Camembert-faced Effrontery

Patrick Marnham heard Bernard Ingham make a joke which he now denies making Paris UNTIL I met Mr Bernard Ingham, the Prime Minister's press secretary, I did not realise that I......

One Hundred Years Ago

Poultry Chit-Chat. By 'Major B.' (Eyre and Spottiswoode.) — This volume — which might, by-the-way, have been of a more handy shape — contains the outline of the writer's......