Lost in Romance

On a recent trip to India I re-read M.M.Kaye’s The Far Pavilions, a beautiful novel of romance and chivalry set in Afghanistan and Rajasthan during the 19th century. It was my fourth trip to India and this time I was visiting neither of these places but, rather, Hyderabad in the Deccan region. Hyderabad was once India’s most beautiful city. Indeed, … Read More