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Please come to Chiswick and hear me and ⁦Mihir Bose⁩ slicing and dicing the Indian subcontinent - 10/9 at 1pm

Richmond‘s brilliant Open Book run by Helena and Madeleine (pictured)...

...now proud to stock signed copies of my new novel #IndiaBeDamned #partitioneducationgroup #partition1947

Shocking arrest of Vicky Bowman and Htein Lin, ex-British ambassador in Burma and brilliant Burmese artist - Burmese junta taking ruthless tactics from Xi Jinping playbook

Catherine Pepinster writes fascinatingly and movingly about the Queen’s inner religious life

Mihir Bose and I hashing over Gandhi, Mountbatten and the avoidable nightmare of India’s Partition raised in my new novel #IndiaBeDamned at Chiswick’s charming book festival yesterday.Chiswick Book Festival ⁦Mihir Bose⁩

It’s an awkward moment to raise it, but it’s clear that one reason Viceroy Mountbatten accelerated India’s Partition so disastrously was because his nephew Philip’s imminent marriage to Princess Elizabeth mattered more #Partition47

Well said Sarfraz Manzoor, in today’s Sunday Times: he hopes the queen’s funeral ‘brings an opportunity to start talking honestly about the legacy and lingering scars of Partition’. My novel #IndiaBeDamned - a novel of Partition - is that.

Hope you’re enjoying it Raj...

The relationship between Lord Louis Mountbatten and the founding fathers of India and Pakistan varied in warmth and enthusiasm. We discuss with Alex von Tunzelmann how these shaped the countries born after 1947. Empire Podcast William Dalrymple

Author of the shameful disaster of Partition- and at the sinister heart of my novel India Be Damned

Mountbatten was Viceroy. Vice-king. Partition was, by this point, unavoidable. But to do it in TWO MONTHS?? That was the sole inspiration of Dickie Mountbatten, Master of Disaster- great-uncle of our king and mother of a million deaths.anita anand

Very late in the day, Britain wakes up to the criminal disaster of how we quit India. Partition was coming. But with 2 months’ notice, no preparation, no army protection for the uprooted, border drawn in a rush by a British lawyer fresh off the boat? Those were Britain’s crimes.

Oh dear. So it’s official. Our ‘best’ (most on the box) actors can no longer fill a theatre with their natural-born voices. What have we lost with that? Immediacy. Intimacy.

Dave ‘Bastard’ Carrick certainly thought so

Just finished this debut novel by ⁦Peter Popham⁩ on my way back from ⁦jaipurlitfest⁩. It’s a masterpiece: a gripping account of India on the eve of Partition, shiningly written, & with a rich cast of characters including Mahatma and the Mountbattens. Recommend

You spend months moaning how no one wants to review your book then turn around one day and -

My novel India Be Damned has drawn ecstatic notices, from Humphrey Hawksley, novelist and former BBC correspondent, among others. Today Humphrey and I will sit down from 12 noon UK time and talk India, novels, empires and their ends...this is the Zoom link us06web.zoom.us/j/89741644438

Yesterday I sat down for an hour with Humphrey Hawksley and chatted for an hour on fiction, food, the shock of all the different Asias there are out there - with warm words from HH about my end-of-Raj novel India Be Damned. Here's the link goldster.co.uk/book-ahead-eve…

Pope Francis rules out retiring. The first liberal pope in 50 years has plenty more work to do app.independent.co.uk/2025/01/14/267…