I am a bit biased when it comes to Joss Ackland, he is hugely charismatic, at times almost overpoweringly so, but here we see a restrained, dare I say touching performance, his voice makes him incredibly watchable. The legendary Jean Simmons is incredibly sweet, she gave a sensitive and believable performance of the fragile Carrie Louise. On the plus side the acting is superb, Hickson is as always excellent, Holly Aird is wonderfully youthful and vibrant as Gina. In terms of production I find it safe, but still very good, when compared to other adaptations it's quite not there. The novel itself isn't one of my favourites, I find the trickery of the murder works better in the book (in my mind) then it does on screen. It's one of my lesser favourites in the series. Her work has appeared in The International New York Times, BBC Travel and Forbes India.I truly love Joan Hickson's adaptations of Miss Marple, she is in my opinion the quintessential Jane Marple. Kamala Thiagarajan is a freelance journalist based in Madurai, India. "The same, " she says, "should apply for tributes." "We understand that it was meant to be a tribute," says Bengaluru-based science researcher Deepa Padmanaban.īut she thinks of it this way - when you give someone a wedding gift, you think about what they're like and what they would appreciate. We should move with the times and look forward."Īnd then there are those with mixed feelings. "We should not forget the past," he says, "but we have been independent for a long time. "Too much is being made of this," says Paritosh Uttam, a software engineer based in Pune, Maharashtra. "When I look at it from my viewpoint, it tells me what I believe in - a more inclusive world." "Every gesture at the wedding was about equality and love," she says. Many in India's younger generation believe that it's important to move on.Īccording to 29-year-old Deepika Gumaste, a travel blogger based in Mumbai, the marriage of Harry and Meghan was special because of the bride and groom's personalities. "While some people are empathetic, very few acknowledge the atrocities inflicted on the colonies."īut not everyone is on the anti-veil train. "Unfortunately, colonialism isn't talked about in Britain as the dark period in history that it actually was,"says Roopa Banerjee, an Indian writer and mother of two boys living in London. The fact that India and other commonwealth nations were expected to be suffused with warmth at the gesture was an indication for some of how colonialism was viewed in the U.K. "Weddings are not the moment to be cynical, but I cannot ignore history and the bloody trail it's left behind." "The flowers, though beautiful, represent colonial amnesia at its worst," says Anita Ratnam, a classical and contemporary dancer based in Chennai. So I find it a bit baffling that she chose to carry that symbolism in her bridal outfit." I see it as sort of little club of former colonies. "People view it as outdated and irrelevant. "The idea of a Commonwealth is itself contentious today," says Ramaprasad. In 2001, the acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh refused to allow his publishers to enter his novel The Glass Palace for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize because it reminded him of an Imperialist Britain from which India had once broken free.
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