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JUNE 24, 2011 9:48AM

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A bit of linkage for all three of my readers on a Friday, gathered from the bounteously flowering fields of the internet:

First - a Pakistani writer looks back at the Anglo-Indians. Not quite what you would have expected, but a good read about a community long-gone from modern Pakistan.

Second - found through a link posted in a historical novel enthusiast group - the story of a poet who’s words inspired his community … the Warsaw Ghetto in the early 1940s.

Hey, Louis! You probably don’t know
What your punches mean to us
You, in your anger, punched the Brown Shirts
Straight in their hearts—K.O.

Lost Words - an article from Tablet Magazine

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The article about Anglo-Indians was fascinating. Talk about a lost world. Fascinating!

Procopius

June 24, 2011 01:46 PM

Yes, it did sound wonderfully fascinating... there was another lost world, I forgot about until now: pictures of life in Kabul, Afghanistan, from the early 1960s - western tourists visiting the Gardens, and a rally of little Girl Guides in one of the main parks. Oh, and a class of nurse-midwives at the medical school, all in very proper nurses uniforms, not a chador or a burka among them.

Sgt. Mom

June 24, 2011 05:15 PM

Yes, that is also a vanished world, although even back then Afghanistan was a place of secrets and intrigue. The father of a boy I knew in the late 60's or early 70's went to Afghanistan, but was unable to tell anyone until he returned. Although he lived in Ft. Worth, far from Langley, he was on some sort of secret mission over there, long before the Soviets marched in.

Procopius

June 24, 2011 08:38 PM

Methinks that Kipling wrote the definitive words about Afghanistan, all these years ago, P.!

Sgt. Mom

June 24, 2011 08:44 PM