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March 23, 2017
Gurinder Chadha, the maker of ‘Viceroy’s House’ – At Home
Financial Times
Gurinder Chadha, whose film Viceroy’s House has just been released, is outside her mews house in London’s Primrose Hill looking at two small lions tucked behind a flower pot. They are props from her most successful film Bend It like Beckham and they’re in the wrong place. “They shouldn’t be there,” says Chadha. With great care, she picks them up and places them either side of the front door. Then she smiles and says: “Now, they are protecting the house”. It took her a year to find this house. “From the moment I walked through the front door I said, ‘I am buying this house.’” She saw it on Monday and by Friday she had bought it.
The house is “upside down”, says Chadha, with bedrooms on the ground floor and the sitting/dining room on the first. Originally two coach houses, a Japanese architect converted the property into a single home in the 1980s, based on feng shui principles. “That’s why I feel it’s always so warm when you walk in here.”
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Gurinder Chadha, whose film Viceroy’s House has just been released, is outside her mews house in London’s Primrose Hill looking at two small lions tucked behind a flower pot. They are props from her most successful film Bend It like Beckham and they’re in the wrong place. “They shouldn’t be there,” says Chadha. With great care, she picks them up and places them either side of the front door. Then she smiles and says: “Now, they are protecting the house”. It took her a year to find this house. “From the moment I walked through the front door I said, ‘I am buying this house.’” She saw it on Monday and by Friday she had bought it.
The house is “upside down”, says Chadha, with bedrooms on the ground floor and the sitting/dining room on the first. Originally two coach houses, a Japanese architect converted the property into a single home in the 1980s, based on feng shui principles. “That’s why I feel it’s always so warm when you walk in here.”
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Letter to The Times : What Britain needs to do to keep partnership with India post-Brexit
The Times
THE BRITISH IN INDIA
Sir, Matt Ridley (Mar 20) is right that the British cannot build a post-Brexit partnership with India on the basis of renewing old imperial ties. Colonial rule was not only exploitative but the Raj made it clear that Indians could never be the equal of the British. What is more, very few in Britain knew, or even cared, about India. No serving British prime minister visited India during the Raj. While millions flocked to Australia and New Zealand building up family ties that endure, very few Britons went to India, and the last census in 1931 showed that 154,691 Britons, fewer than the then population of Hull or Nottingham, lived in India. It is only within the past 20-odd years that the British have really begun to get to know India, as series such as The Real Marigold Hotel and Rick Stein’s India demonstrate. A partnership of equals is possible (letter, Mar 22), but not if British ministers parrot on about a shared historical past. That will only remind Indians of how much the British took from India.
Mihir Bose
Journalist and author, London W6
THE BRITISH IN INDIA
Sir, Matt Ridley (Mar 20) is right that the British cannot build a post-Brexit partnership with India on the basis of renewing old imperial ties. Colonial rule was not only exploitative but the Raj made it clear that Indians could never be the equal of the British. What is more, very few in Britain knew, or even cared, about India. No serving British prime minister visited India during the Raj. While millions flocked to Australia and New Zealand building up family ties that endure, very few Britons went to India, and the last census in 1931 showed that 154,691 Britons, fewer than the then population of Hull or Nottingham, lived in India. It is only within the past 20-odd years that the British have really begun to get to know India, as series such as The Real Marigold Hotel and Rick Stein’s India demonstrate. A partnership of equals is possible (letter, Mar 22), but not if British ministers parrot on about a shared historical past. That will only remind Indians of how much the British took from India.
Mihir Bose
Journalist and author, London W6
February 2, 2017
The Independent review of Mihir’s latest book: Silver, the Spy who Fooled the Nazis
By Kim Sengupta. Under the codename of Silver, Bhagat Ram Talwar spied for Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan and Italy in the space of five years during the Second World War, but author Mihir Bose uncovers how his true loyalties lay with Indian independence
The part played in Britain’s wars by forces from the Empire, the sacrifices made, the countless honours won for gallantry, were airbrushed out for a long time from most accounts of history written in this country. It is only recently that there has been a degree of restitution with some recognition of the contributions made by these men and women.
The part played in Britain’s wars by forces from the Empire, the sacrifices made, the countless honours won for gallantry, were airbrushed out for a long time from most accounts of history written in this country. It is only recently that there has been a degree of restitution with some recognition of the contributions made by these men and women.
The man with the golden tongue: India’s master of Second World War espionage: Independent review of Silver the Spy Who Fooled the Nazis
By Kim Sengupta
Under the codename of Silver, Bhagat Ram Talwar spied for Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan and Italy in the space of five years during the Second World War, but author Mihir Bose uncovers how his true loyalties lay with Indian independence
The part played in Britain’s wars by forces from the Empire, the sacrifices made, the countless honours won for gallantry, were airbrushed out for a long time from most accounts of history written in this country. It is only recently that there has been a degree of restitution with some recognition of the contributions made by these men and women.
Under the codename of Silver, Bhagat Ram Talwar spied for Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan and Italy in the space of five years during the Second World War, but author Mihir Bose uncovers how his true loyalties lay with Indian independence
The part played in Britain’s wars by forces from the Empire, the sacrifices made, the countless honours won for gallantry, were airbrushed out for a long time from most accounts of history written in this country. It is only recently that there has been a degree of restitution with some recognition of the contributions made by these men and women.
January 31, 2017
Mihir guest speaker at 350th anniversary celebrations of Guru Gobind Singh
Mihir was one of the guest speakers at the 350th Parkash Utsav (Holy Birth Anniversary) of Guru Gobind Singh held at the House of Commons on 31 January. To read about the event please click on the post.
January 20, 2017
The Jewish Chronicle reviews Mihir’s new book Silver: The Spy who Fooled the Nazis
Jewish Chronicle
Man with five faces
MIHIR BOSE’S beautifully written book, Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis, (Fonthill, £25) tells the story of Hindu who lived in the North-West frontier province of British India and was the only quintuple spy of the Second World War. He spied for the Germans, Italians, Japanese, Russians and the British, though his true loyalties lay with his native India.
Man with five faces
MIHIR BOSE’S beautifully written book, Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis, (Fonthill, £25) tells the story of Hindu who lived in the North-West frontier province of British India and was the only quintuple spy of the Second World War. He spied for the Germans, Italians, Japanese, Russians and the British, though his true loyalties lay with his native India.
The Jewish Chronicle reviews Mihir’s new book The Spy who Fooled the Nazis
Jewish Chronicle
Man with five faces
MIHIR BOSE’S beautifully written book, Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis, (Fonthill, £25) tells the story of Hindu who lived in the North-West frontier province of British India and was the only quintuple spy of the Second World War. He spied for the Germans, Italians, Japanese, Russians and the British, though his true loyalties lay with his native India.
Man with five faces
MIHIR BOSE’S beautifully written book, Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis, (Fonthill, £25) tells the story of Hindu who lived in the North-West frontier province of British India and was the only quintuple spy of the Second World War. He spied for the Germans, Italians, Japanese, Russians and the British, though his true loyalties lay with his native India.
January 13, 2017
Interview with Mihir Bose about his new book Silver
To see Mihir's interview with News18, CNN talking about his new book, Silver the spy who Fooled the Nazis and the man who inspired it please view the post.
January 6, 2017
Read Asian Voice review of Mihir’s latest book: Silver, the Spy who Fooled the Nazis
by Rani Singh or click here to read the article online. 
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