![]() ![]() Or that he, his sisters and his new-found brothers, his countrymen and men from all over the Empire, would be drawn out onto roads that led very far from home, and did not all lead back……….” from Raghu Karnad’s Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War.Įvery photograph on the mantle, or the wall, or hidden between aged pages of albums, has a story to tell. Raghu Karnad had seen the three old photographs in his grandmother’s house, but never asked their names. ![]() ……………Bobby never imagined, any more than the egg boy, how the war would rise up around India, or how it would divide the country, divide the army that enlisted him, and even divide Bobby against himself. But he couldn’t have explained about the Panzers in Poland, the craven declaration from London, or the Viceroy in Delhi already committing India and Indians to the fray………. The egg boy may have been told that rationing and shortages were expected, and eggs would be priced up as a precaution. “ It is said that the news of the world war reached Calicut along with the morning eggs…. Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War by Raghu Karnad ![]()
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