Sunder wrote this account of Tintern Abbey shortly after our visit in the summer of 2006
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Sunder worked on and off on this ‘journal’ after we returned from our Caribbean cruise in December 2007. While he kept notes and collected material during the trip it is not a journal in the real sense, being a retrospective account. He never did complete it, but always had plans to go back and fill in the gaps some day.
This is another piece Sunder wrote for his school alumni magazine, drawing on the same material he had for his biographical sketch. This piece is a ‘kaleidoscope’ of impressionistic memories of his years at Rishi Valley School.
I am the son of a sportsman, I grew up in England, Bhopal, Pataudi, Delhi and Mumbai, and I am more Indian than any Hindu or Muslim I know because I am both. I wrote this piece not to comment on the masses or the problems of communalism in India…
If I die, survive me with such sheer force that you waken the furies of the pallid and the cold, from south to south lift your indelible eyes, from sun to sun dream through your singing mouth. I don’t want your laughter or your steps to waver, I don’t want…