Wodehouse’s appeal is timeless because humour itself is timeless, a relative of the master humorist, who probably has more admirers in India than in the UK, said in Calcutta. Wodehouse.... It is like, ‘Now I give it to you because you are ready’,” Hal Cazalet, step-great-grandson of Wodehouse, told this newspaper. What keeps Wodehouse going in India, this newspaper asked Cazalet, whose full name is Henry Pelham “Hal” Cazalet. Songs took (the audience) on a lot more emotional journey.”During his Broadway stint, Wodehouse wrote stuff that was not all that different from Bollywood scripts, Cazalet said.

Source: The Telegraph January 24, 2026 00:38 UTC