The Judge Who Wrote

My grandfather would be 115 years old today. To celebrate, I’m re-reading his autobiography Memory’s Gay Chariot. He was a judge in the Indian Civil Service. In 1949 he judged the man who killed Mahatma Gandhi. But he had mixed feelings about his career. In his autobiography, he explains why .

“It was the beginning of 1921, during my second term at  Cambridge that I came upon a group of Indian students excitedly discussing the pros and cons of joining the I.C.S. In the centre of the group st...