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Gliding over New Delhi Safdarjung

Runway at Safdarjung, (photo ?) The kids are busy slaughtering each other in the kitchen, making, supposedly, welsh rarebit - in a thoroughly cowardly way, I've left them and Shanti to sort each other out; it's too exhausting to do anything else. I'm hoping this catches you just before you set off on Tuesday - though it probably won't....but want to tell you all about this afernoon and how we all went gliding!! Even pissed-scared me! I saw in the Patriot yesterday about a special reduced-fee gliding month, to raise funds for flood relief -5/- a time; and told the boys in an unwise moment. The twins and I chickened out at lunch deciding that we would wait for you, but Phil insisted and we yielded, finally. We waited for ages before our turn; there is this little hanger at Safdarjung airport, a sort of Wilson airport ; and it's full of gliders, even a hang glider; and quite a few people, though not as many as you'd expect. Finally, after a lot of hanging

Portrait of Eve Hall

Evita bienvenido - al universo

Sxip Shirey - quite good

I live in New York City Moon in her belly A young man walks in Brooklyn Shadowland Pandora Bowls and marbles

Tony Hall on geopolitics and the Islamic world

...Quiet, you at the back, and stop shifting in your seats! I am almost 70. Settle down, listen carefully and take in some wisdom already. Let's look today at geopolitics and the Islamic world. Some of my years I spent side by side with Palestinian secular and other colleagues and Arab and Islamic experts in London, editing international news magazines, working sometimes for moneyed Emirates and Saudi bosses who at least always tolerated my pro-PLO editorials ; meeting some wonderful Palestinians; talking to a few fine Israelis - and attacking and exposing the worst. A cover line we did on Menachem Begin back then was "Once a Terrorist, Always a Terrorist". With Arabs and Arabists, Muslims and Islamists, I was on friendly working terms - some of them are still in hailing distance over time. To name a few, I was honoured to work with Teddy Hodgkin, Malise Ruthven, Fathi Osman of Al Azhar University, Dilip Hiro, Helena Cobban, Ahmed Rashid, Ziauddin Sardar, Peter