Jug Suraiya

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An Englishman in exile

JS and The Times of  My Life: A Worm’s-eye View of Journalism
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Jug Suraiya is an exile many times over. He lives in Gurgaon but his heart is in Calcutta, the city he once called home but a city that has since disappeared. It’s been replaced by something called Kolkata, which one suspects has neither time nor space for the memories and the intellectual zeitgeist of the late 1960s and early 1970s that Suraiya describes in this breezy, enjoyable book.

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