Of (India) Club and country

• Eastern Eye Staff
• 17 May, 2018

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…

You do not have access to this content. You need to subscribe.