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Bloodstock agent Charles Gordon-Watson on the chase for champions – At Home

As one of Britain’s top spotters of equine pedigree, the Brexit-backer laments how foreign owners are taking over UK flat-racing.
One of Britain’s leading bloodstock agents, Charles Gordon-Watson, lives in a house steeped in history. His home is part of the 5,000-acre Sydmonton estate near Newbury, Berkshire, which dates back to the 16th century. Inside, he has surrounded himself with paintings and objects that make up a visual history of his life.

Josy Joseph of The Hindu reviews The Indian Spy

The Hindu

The Indian Spy: The True Story of the Most Remarkable Secret Agent of World War II Mihir Bose Aleph Book Company ₹599

Who was Bhagat Ram Talwar? A journalist-writer tells us another fascinating chapter of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s life

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is a fascinating, and an unusual, historical figure who combines charisma and mystery, a deadly cocktail that has spurred a flourishing industry of books, essays, documentaries, films and endless discussions. Even seven decades after he disappeared, Bose continues his unusual exuberant journey stoking Indian pride and imagination.

Review of The Indian Spy in The Sunday Standard, New Delhi

Review of An Indian Spy in The Sunday Standard, New Delhi

Reader’s Digest review of the Indian edition of Mihir’s book Silver, the spy who fooled the Nazis

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Glorious glimpses of the past on the road to Mandalay: An enchanting voyage through Burma

Mail on Sunday

Burma is a country where the past is constantly jostling with the present. Even as I waited at the immigration counter at Yangon airport, I was struck by what turned out to be the first of many surprises.
There was a channel marked ‘Seamen’ with no queue at all. It turned out that the channel was reserved for those seeking permanent residence. However, nobody arrives by boat these days, so having such a counter seems like a curious attempt to preserve a vanished past.

Stalin’s agent in India – Times of India’s review of the Indian edition of Mihir’s latest book, Silver, the spy who fooled the Nazis

Times of India

This is an unusual spy story. There are no John Le Carre moments but the story of Bhagat Ram Talwar is a necessary and relevant chapter in India’s struggle for independence when many patriots where confronted with dilemmas of contradictory choices, as is evident in the much narrated legend of Subhas Chandra Bose who held that ‘’our enemy’s enemy is our friend.”

The Indian Spy – Outlook Magazine

Mihir writes about his new book on Silver – The spy who fooled the Nazis

Asian Affairs

Mihir Bose tells how he uncovered the extraordinary story of an Indian spy who fooled the Axis and still discomforts India’s communists

The Second World War produced many remarkable spies. But Bhagat Ram Talwar, from the North-West Frontier Province of British India, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, was undoubtedly the most remarkable.

The Tribune’s review of The Indian Spy – the Indian edition of Silver, Mihir’s latest book