Circling Back: A Return to Mount Abu
“When I was twenty, I dropped out of college and travelled alone, overland to India. I didn’t tell my parents where I was until, some months after my disappearance, I…
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Nigel Planer
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Nigel Planer is an actor and writer working in London. He was a co-founder of London’s Comedy Store and Comic Strip clubs and went on to star in many TV comedy shows including the classic ‘The Young Ones‘ for the BBC which aired on MTV in the eighties and nineties. He has written over seven books, including two novels – ‘The Right Man‘, and ‘Faking It‘ – as well as the best-selling ‘A Good Enough Dad‘, and the spoof theatrical biography ‘I, An Actor‘, which also spawned a TV series and a one man theatre show. His plays have been performed in London West End and fringe theatres and on BBC Radio 4.
Illogical, Magnificent Kerala
There’s a wonderful illogic about India that drives many mad, but is also a great part of its appeal. The printed sign outside the Kathakali dance venue summed it up;…
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Palace Hopping in Rajasthan and Gujarat
Reggie Singh, in a blazer, white shirt and old-style cravat, greets us with a billiard cue slung nonchalantly over his shoulder. Traditional jazz music is blaring out of his huge…
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