“England struck me as a very miserable place, dark and drab, without the bright skies of India.”
" Mark Tully: The voice of India http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1735083.stm," BBC News, 31 December 2001
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Save one, whose patience or whose pride was more than all the rest.
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