![]() ‘Kim did nothing with an immense success. His life in Lahore was everything mine was not. When I was a child, locked into the English school system, the only person I wanted to be was Kim. It’s a strange, oddly constructed book intended for children, with no proper villain, that even its author said was ‘plotless’ but which I have always found mesmerizing. Kim is the eponymous hero of Rudyard Kipling’s masterpiece, for many one of the best books about India ever written. Kim was white – a poor white of the very poorest.Īs I read those lines the familiar magic envelops me. Though he was burned black as any native though he spoke the vernacular by preference. since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English. ![]() hold the Punjab for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot. He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher – the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. ![]()
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