When you came to England to study, was it a culture shock to swap India for Cambridge?
I wasn’t shocked by England or its culture. Reading everything I could lay my hands on, from Shakespeare to PG Wodehouse to Woman’s Own, had prepared me for most of it. But never having washed my own clothes in India, I used a washing machine for the first time at my college and poured a whole carton of washing powder into it. The bubbles filled the college basement and overflowed onto the croquet lawn. I didn’t own up.
