4 SEPTEMBER 1993, page 34

Following The Leader

William Dalrymple THE LAST BURDEN by Upamanyu Chatterjee Faber, £14.99, pp.303 I t is probably inevitable that every great literary success produces in its wake a backwash of......

Arts

Museums Damaging admission I was intrigued to watch on television a few weeks ago an unsolicited tribute to the pulling power of the nation's cultural insti- tutions. The......