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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnon.

And me, William Drimple.

We're doing the second part of the, the second half of the bagel, if you like, the crom bagel.

So we were talking about the Maharajas gardener.

I'm so impressed by this story.

I have to say that Anita's come up with. Oh, how sweet.

I spent quite a lot of time digging up in Maharajari archival stories.

I think I never heard of this guy, not once, not even a whisper of him.

But that's why this works really well, because it's the Gerno knows and the historian in

you.

And it was just the photo.

Again, it's always photos at the gateway to me.

So just to remind you, if you hadn't heard the last episode, I was on a trip with Willie

to Bangalore for the Litfest. And even though many locals

there's nothing to see in Bangalore, just you're better off going to Saringa Putnam.

I was busy sending you off to my sort to Three Ranga Patnam. Yes, I know. You just go somewhere

else, go somewhere else. And yet, a lovely man called Vinay took us on a tour. I went with my family

around Bangalore and Coven Park, which is a fantastic park, a really

beautiful park, actually, interesting park in Bangalore at all the imperial whispers that have been

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