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“... AChinese friend​ and I have taken to batting words at each other like ping-pong balls. I’m trying to improve my Mandarin and she is curious about Bengali, but some things stop us in our tracks. Rice porridge is one of them. Cooked rice can be revived by boiling in water, or simply by pouring water over it, although fancier versions use broth or green tea, as in Japanese ochazuke ...”

“... to ‘a great stage’, with Parvez seated like the ‘mock kings’ familiar to London playgoers. Nandini Das suggests that Roe’s theatrical tropes were deployed defensively in an attempt to diminish the opulent magnificence of the Mughal court. Yet he was the ambassador of James VI and I, who had advised his heir, Prince Henry, in Basilicon Doron ...”