A feather! A very feather upon the face!
Amit Chaudhuri: India before Kipling, 6 January 2000
The Unforgiving Minute
by Harry Ricketts.
Chatto, 434 pp., £25, January 1999,0 7011 3744 4 Show More
by Harry Ricketts.
Chatto, 434 pp., £25, January 1999,
“... engage in a colloquy at a crucial moment of modern history – people like the educationalist David Hare, the Anglo-Portuguese poet and teacher Henry Derozio, the great Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt. If Kipling had been born fifty years earlier, it would have been impossible for him to write the cheerfully assonantal but bleak lines: ‘O East is ... ”