By: Eastern Eye Staff
by Amit Patel HISTORIC ENGLAND IN ROW OVER LONDON ‘INSTITUTION’ THE property company which is planning to demolish the India Club in the Strand in London and convert it into a fancy hotel will locate a lavatory in the corner of the restaurant that has been occupied for decades by portraits of two of the stalwarts of the Indian independence movement – Mahatma Gandhi and VK Krishna Menon. “This is an insult to all Indians,” commented the historian Dr Kusoom Vadgama. Krishna Menon was one of founders in the 1940s of the India League, the forerunner of the India Club, and…
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