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A great relationship?

Some notes on David Cameron’s visit to India and the Anglo-Indian bilateral relationship in the Huffington Post. Last week the UK prime minister, David Cameron, was in India making a strong pitch for bilateral trade, talking of the potential for a “great relationship” to be formed between the two countries….

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Whither Pakistan

2013 promises to be a year of big transitions in Pakistan, including a historic change of guard in the civilian government, and the retirements of General Kayani and the CJ, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. The World Tonight on Radio 4 aired a special on Wednesday that highlighted some interesting differences of…

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Trivial Pursuits

An interesting tidbit from Ram Guha’s masterly book, India after Gandhi. I wish we were taught more of our post-Independence history in school. For some reason the NCERT seemed to believe that history ended in 1947, with everything that came after relegated on the civics and economics textbooks.

Fish cakes
Culinary Experiments

Beating Monday night blues

Inspired by Jamie Oliver I tried making salmon fish cakes and purple slaw. Added some chilli and mustard to the fish cake mix to give it more flavour. All in all, a Monday night well spent!