BIB_ID
458190
Accession number
MA 23840.1619
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 26.8 x 18 cm
Notes
Year from postmark.
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. Ismail Merchant, 2, Orchard Court, Portman Square, London, W1, England, postmarked June 25, 1985.
The city of Ahmedabad saw a series of violent anti-reservation protests in 1981 and 1985.
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. Ismail Merchant, 2, Orchard Court, Portman Square, London, W1, England, postmarked June 25, 1985.
The city of Ahmedabad saw a series of violent anti-reservation protests in 1981 and 1985.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Describing the current situation in Ahmedabad, where Renana now lives, with curfews hobbling the organization Renana works for [SEWA], so that she is now working with Oxfam in their relief camps; describing Renana's indignation at the Indian con man who cheated Merchant in Italy, after she went to the address the man gave Merchant in Ahmedabad and found he did not and had never lived there; asking for details of the encounter, and saying Renana is "thinking of complaining to the police."
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