RIP Nigel Hankin
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:40 pm
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
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