Just Like Nigel
THE AUSTINS are still on the road, which is more than can be said for the policies. I would not have expected, all those years ago, to see India's finance minister bring in a......
Victorian Values
VICTORIA, Bombay's railway station, is a cross between St Pancras and the Taj Mahal. No city has grander Victorian build- ings. Sir George Gilbert Scott took time off from St......
City And Suburban
India and China it's a two-horse race, but the betting is the wrong way round CHRISTOPHER FILDES Bombay h ehe overfly is how an American friend of mine describes most of his......
Etymologically Correct
BOMBAY came in the dowry brought to Charles II by Catherine of Braganza, and is said to derive its name from the Portuguese born bairn: good harbour. This imperialist etymology......
Hanging On And Hoping
TWENTY years ago when I first came to Bombay, I called on a British bank which had outlived the Raj and was hoping to escape nationalisation. I found it strike- bound. The union......
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