I’d visit her often in the West Sussex cottage where she and my father lived once his foreign postings ended. Pictured: Charles Wheeler and Dip Singh in early daysShe spoke, though more openly about politics, than personal matters. My mother lived through the upheaval of India’s Partition. At my mother’s turn, my father offered: ‘You’re good at cleaning the lavatory.’ A joke, of course, but it felt demeaning. The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition And the Punjab by Marina Wheeler, Hodder & Stoughton.

Source: Daily Mail November 15, 2020 22:05 UTC