Since many of them were once built or owned by the British, perhaps this is hardly surprising. Yet the romance clearly goes much deeper than this banal connection, even surviving the dyspeptic comments of Paul Theroux, who made his name by disliking them. So besotted are the British with ...
It is often through argumentation and debate that assumptions which tend to otherwise remain tacit can surface. The Tibetan literary genre of “apologia” (rtsod lan, rtsod bzlog, rtsod spong, dgag lan, brgal lan)—a possible rendering of the Tibetan terms “reply” (lan) or “rebuttal”...