In 2004, ten days after I moved my family to a new life in India, I gave a reading at a small palace on the edge of the ‘pink city’ of Jaipur. Fourteen people turned up, of whom ten were Japanese tourists who had got lost. The next year, I helped organise a modest literary programme of 18 authors.
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William Dalrymple’s Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan 1839–42 is now published in paperback (Bloomsbury, £9.99).
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