THE LAST VICTORIAN
August 30, 1999 · David Pryce-Jones, Blog
Nirad Chaudhuri was a scholar and artist, an exile, a man with a tragic view of life but also a comedian, in every way a free spirit. Just five feet tall, he filled the room with the solar energy of his extraordinary personality. He was rightly proud to publish a book at the age of 100, and up to…