Cancel Culture strikes out Abide with Me

The Cancel Culture strikes out Abide with Me

For most of my remembered life, every last weekend in January, meant watching the Beating of the Retreat in New Delhi, when the massed bands of the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, “beat the retreat” of the defence forces from Delhi to their various stations scattered around India.

Once upon a time we would listen to it on the radio and then live TV and now Live Youtube. T...