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...Only when we visited the Siem Reap crocodile farm did they really begin to think about the horrors that the country had undergone....
...Participants include William Dalrymple, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum and Natalie Haynes, hilarious polymath and author of A Thousand Ships....
...Babur’s memoirs, The Baburnama, have recently been republished by Everyman, with an introduction by William Dalrymple Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...A narrow lane flanked by hedges led us up into the Black Mountains, past small farms and stands of gold-leafed beech trees and rowans festooned with bright red berries....
...It’s called Tswalu Kalahari Reserve and it was created by the late Stephen Boler out of what were essentially arid, subsistence farms....
...It also includes talks from India experts William Dalrymple and Patrick French....
...In both, every man is a chieftain, and every farm a fort. “In these contests,” wrote Paddy, “the first blow was never struck without warning. War was formally declared by the challenging side....
...Ms Wade-Gery lives on a picturesque farm in Suffolk with her husband, who farms sheep and cows....
...I never knew the mountain walls were so forbidding, or the high ridges so enticing, or the waterfalls so precipitous, or the isolated farms quite so lonely!...
...By 1973, however, the grandson had fled the bitter family feuds and moved to a sheep farm in Australia; within a decade even that was sold to pay creditors....
...Dalrymple leaves you wondering how long India’s sacred traditions can survive against the violent onslaught of modernity....
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