Peter Walker

‘It would be hard to overstate the importance of genealogy in Maori society.’

Issue 57

Ian Jack

‘I first went to India twenty years ago as a reporter.’

Issue 57

Urvashi Butalia

‘Stories are all that people have, stories that rarely breach the frontiers of family and religious community’

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Edward Hoagland

‘I believed that I had a sixth sense.’

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James Buchan

‘I see in an instant what has brought people to the valley for four centuries.’

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Mark Tully

‘They were moral and they were mean.’

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Ved Mehta

‘I was besieged by family memories.’

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Trevor Fishlock

‘His room is as he left it, furnished with a carpet, a spinning wheel, a low white table, a mattress and cushion.’

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William Dalrymple

‘Bad things went on in Bihar, my friends told me’

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Viramma

‘All my children have been buried where they died’

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Nirad Chaudhuri

‘I try to convert my mind into a camera’

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Phillip Knightley

‘The CIA had become concerned about Soviet influence in India in the early 1960s.’

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Jan Morris

‘It was an empire, by and large, without ideology.’

V.S. Naipaul