Three Quarters Of A Footprint'I travelled with Mrs Trivedi from Madras to Bangalore, overnight on the mail train. "First class this time so that you are not overwhelmed". It was my second night in India and I was already overwhelmed'. Joe Roberts stayed five months with the Trivedis in Bangalore. Using that as a base he travelled all over southern India. Wherever he went he met extraordinary peopleMajor Trivedi warned him that 'nothing is as fixed as you think'. In Pondicherry he

At last Tom walks to school

from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks

In the final days of the Second World War

And it looks at their afterlives -- how politics and the Hindi-Urdu debate reincarnated them as national heroes

Love Glenda's sagas

As the Arctic ice melts

It covers key word-game themes

and contains words you thought you knew (decimate

and polarised by

impresionómuchas personas

including infamous serial killers Ted Bundy

and king of the one-night stand