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Outstanding British Asians – Mihir Bose
Outstanding British Asians: show features remarkable British Asians who are role models to gain inspiration from for young British Asians.
Guest: Mihir Bose, journalist and sportswriter, former BBC’s sport editor.
Hideously Diverse Britain – A passage from India
Some drift towards their destiny. For others, it all hinges on a single moment. It was like that for me, says Mihir Bose. Now 64, he travelled to Britain from India to study more than 40 years ago and has since moved back and forth, exploiting his status as a returning resident. It seemed the ideal arrangement for a young man pulled between dreams of making a name for himself here and a hugely privileged, less romantic lifestyle in India. And it was ideal, until an immigration officer at Heathrow said: “If you want to live here, live here.” “I had to decide; do I go back to India and continue as an accountant and give up being a writer, or stay? I thought if I went back, I would always kick myself.” So he stayed, to the annoyance of his father, an industrialist who envisaged a life for his son more lucrative than journalism…
This article relates to Mihir’s performance ‘The heartache we must endure’ with Lola Perrin, with Y Yadavan on 21st May 2011 at the Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA. Click here to book tickets, or enter the competition to win 2 tickets to this one-night-only event.
The heartache we must endure – Mihir Bose’s tale of a Panama hat, mouldy rice and migration
With Lola Perrin and Y Yadavan
Q&A moderated by Shane Solanki will follow the performance
Time: 8pm, Saturday, 21 May 2011
Tickets: £7 advance / £10 door
Venue: Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA www.richmix.org.uk
Box office: 020 7613 7498 boxoffice@richmix.org.uk
Book tickets here or enter the competition below
COMPETITION: For a chance to win 2 tickets to this one-night-only performance, just read through the information below and then answer the question and submit your details in the boxes provided. No purchase necessary.
Once upon a time in America: Coast-to-coast on a 3,300-mile rail odyssey from New York to San Francisco
Mail on Sunday
It could only happen in America. After a rail odyssey of 3,397 miles from New York to San Francisco, our journey was ending at a bus stop.
As we stepped off the coach on California Street in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district and lugged our cases a couple of blocks to our hotel, my wife and I probably looked like overstocked shoppers coming back from the supermarket.
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We Indians have always voted Labour. Until now…
In the week Gordon Brown dismissed one of his own supporters as bigoted, a respected broadcaster on why immigration is making him vote Tory for the first time.
Mail on Sunday
Almost 40 years ago, towards the end of the Edward Heath government, my landlady suddenly took me aside and invited me to have a drink with her in her sitting room.
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Other Personal articles
- A trip to Peebles brings me cheer - January 14, 2010
- An old spa spins a new story - February 1, 2009
- The Orient Express lives! Well, just about - September 22, 2008
- Now I know what it’s like to win Olympic gold - August 12, 2005
- ‘Get out,’ he shouted. ‘Do you want to die?’ - June 20, 2005
- Transatlantic: Yes, people do live like this - July 31, 2001
