In Edwina's Shoes
Apart from her revelations on the Nehru-Edwina romance, Pamela Mountbatten's memoir of her life as the last Viceroy's daughter, India Remembered, has some other nuggets. Like the delightful anecdote about the usually dour Sardar Patel shaking with mirth at a formal viceregal banquet. Why was India's original Iron Man so amused? During the dinner, both Patel and Lady Edwina kicked off their shoes to rest their aching feet. But when they were about to arise from the table, Patel found he'd slipped his feet into Edwina's stilettos, while she was left with his chappals!
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March of the Penguins
Penguins are normally cold-water birds, so what's made a flock of them decide to head for the sultry shores of Thailand? You could call it the Harry Potter effect—the phenomenal orders for the latest Harry Potter title (2,60,000 copies) have been such a windfall for its distributors, Penguin India, that their annual conference next month is being held at a luxurious beach resort in Phuket.