We may claim to know the ‘white man’, but is that so?
I got a feeling that my friend was in some kind of intelligence job after years in India as a member of the ICS but of course, he said nothing. Englishmen, I had learnt, never say anything unless you force them to and even then, it is never the whole truth. That is only why they make such wonderful spies. I never got to know his real name. But it was certainly not James Bond!
This article was originally published on September 25, 2021.
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