bout de papier, Volume 28, Issue No. 2, 2014
Troubled Pilgrimage: Passage to Pakistan
When Balwant Bhaneja retired from the Canadian Foreign Service he bravely undertook a solo voyage to Pakistan where his parents had lived to adulthood, about which he only had some vague childhood recollections and where he had no known relatives. This slim…
A Troubled Pilgrimage
Although we think of pilgrimages as devotional trips to special places like Santiago de Compostela or Mecca, usually the real destination is the same: the soul. Born in Lahore just before British India’s brutal partition in 1947, in 2006 Bill Bhaneja took…
Paving the Way in Delhi
Fifty years ago I was on temporary duty in South Africa, after three years in Australia, when a telegram came from Ottawa ordering me to go to Delhi to “pave the way for a new mission”. Those were the days when one…
A Hero of Our Time
Neither those who revere Lord Louis Mountbatten as a founder of the modern Commonwealth nor those who think of him as a dilettante and a lightweight will find their views fully vindicated in this well balanced biography of a man who helped…
