Journalist and author. New out - my novel INDIA BE DAMNED, a novel of India’s Partition.
London
Joined September 2009
- Tweets293
- Following162
- Followers1.2K
- Likes24
Suu Kyi turns 81 today. No-one knows if she’s dead or alive. And her tiny usurper has spent the week in Beijing, kowtowing to his nation’s new boss - Xi Jinping. independent.co.uk/bulletin/n…
Pope Francis rules out retiring. The first liberal pope in 50 years has plenty more work to do app.independent.co.uk/2025/0…
Yesterday I sat down for an hour with @HumphreyHawk 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-ev…
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/8974164443…
Peter Popham retweeted
Just finished this debut novel by @peterpopham 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
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.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
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.
Thanks to all @RoyalHistSoc and @GreshamCollege for asking me give this year’s Colin Matthew memorial lecture on #partitionvoices. And agree the interviewees are remarkable as are their stories.
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.@tweeter_anita
How far was Mountbatten responsible for the catastrophe of Partition? @tweeter_anita and I examine the evidence with the help of @alexvtunzelmann , author of Indian Summer on @EmpirePodUK
Available wherever you pod
Apple apple.co/3TSw88H
Spotify spoti.fi/3SUv3eU
Author of the shameful disaster of Partition- and at the sinister heart of my novel India Be Damned
The Last Viceroy
In this episode of @EmpirePodUK, @tweeter_anita & I are joined by the fabulous @alexvtunzelmann to discuss Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India.
open.spotify.com/episode/1jM…
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas… xitter.cf/DalrympleWill/status/1…
(xitter.cf/DalrympleWill/status/1…)
Peter Popham retweeted
The relationship between Lord Louis Mountbatten and the founding fathers of India and Pakistan varied in warmth and enthusiasm. We discuss with @alexvtunzelmann how these shaped the countries born after 1947. @EmpirePodUK @DalrympleWill
Hope you’re enjoying it Raj...
Train journey reading, finally getting round to it @peterpopham
@PartitionGroup @PartitionEdScot
#AlwaysWorking
Well said @sarfrazmanzoor, 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.
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
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.@W4BookFest @mihirbose
Catherine Pepinster writes fascinatingly and movingly about the Queen’s inner religious life
Elizabeth II: defender of the faith and missionary Queen - @CPsPepTalk for @RelMedCentre #QueenElizabeth
religionmediacentre.org.uk/n…
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
BREAKING | The Myanmar junta arrested Vicky Bowman, former British ambassador to the country from 2002-2006, on Wednesday night in Yangon along with her husband, artist Htein Lin. The couple were reportedly sent to the notorious Insein Prison.
Read more - bit.ly/3PS36D4
...now proud to stock signed copies of my new novel #IndiaBeDamned #partitioneducationgroup #partition1947
