Because it amuses me to read such things as
What became known among the cognoscenti as "Nigel tours" tended to bypass the main tourist sites in favour of the teeming bazaars and spice markets of Old Delhi, soda stalls, small shrines, cremation grounds and neglected relics of the Raj, including Coronation Park, now a graveyard for statues of the servants of empire.
Places on these tours were sought-after but difficult to obtain, as Hankin possessed neither an internet site nor a telephone and always asked his tour guests not to mention how to get in touch with him.
(The determined could, however, contact him by leaving a note at the Mughal Gate of the High Commission.)
and
Nigel Hankin died on November 30. He never married, but he had his chai and newspaper brought to him every morning by an old retainer who served him for more than 40 years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... db0902.xml
RIP Nigel Hankin
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RIP Nigel Hankin
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.