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The serene and tragic faces of Amritsar.(India)

From: Contemporary Review  |  Date: 12/1/2005  |  Author: Beattie, Andrew

MRS Bhandari, bent double over her walking stick and supported by her middle-aged daughter as she takes her daily stroll at dusk around the gardens of her elegant villa, is one of Amritsar's most distinctive echoes of the Raj. Now in her nineties, Mrs Bhandari has lived for over sixty years in a brick-built two-storey house in the Amritsar cantonment, a district of the city comprising elegant villas and wide, tree-lined avenues that owes its existence entirely to the British. Mrs ...

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