Lord Meghnad Desai: ‘It’s time to say goodbye’
I ARRIVED in London in September 1965 to teach at the London School of Economics (LSE).
I had left India in 1961 and gone to the United States, thanks to Ford Foundation Fellowship to do my PhD. While there, I became aware of the racial discrimination against black people. The protest movement against the Vietnam War had radicalised me.
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