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Article: Flat Earth
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 11, 1994
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Baldry bhaji
A KIND of post-imperial haze over London last week. First at the
Red Fort restaurant in Dean Street for the opening of the
Rajasthani Food Festival. There it was, all swirling pipes,
whirling dancing-girls and speeches by the Indian High Commissioner
and the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Mr
Tony Baldry.
Mr Baldry has a penetrating eye, gleaming teeth and a tie
covered with figures that look like those outlines the police draw
on the floor around dead people. But the stern ministerial effect
is ineffably softened by a pink and orange turban he is wearing for
the occasion, with a train falling gracefully down his back. His
appearance gratifies not only ...