Ambedkar: The Attendant Details : Introduction By BamaThis book is an attempt at intimacy with B. R. Ambedkar in his hours away from history and headlines. The aim here is to recover the ephemera that attended Ambedkars life and died with himhis pleasure in his library and book collecting, his vein of gruff humour, the sensation of seeing him in the flesh for the first time, or of stepping out of a summer storm into his house and hearing him at practice on his Violin. Here, we have his attendants,

It's in this quiet place of wind and trees

'D and A meet under improbable circumstances in the most unlikely of places-a posh resort in the Andamans

this book makes ancient Egypt feel immediate and real

Charmingly entertaining it celebrates the funny side of growing older allowing readers to laugh off their forgetfulness fading physique and new penchant for the afternoon nap and have them smiling at seniordom and all it entails

and they love to spend time together while JoJo's Mummy and Daddy are at work

and following the loss of her husband of thirty years to cancer

There are lots of Messi Easter eggs to find throughout the book

" He lives in a bungalow on the Rue de Lafayette in Shanghai

But the best thing is (*spoiler alert*)

The Familia myth--written by the goddess and lived by the boy--continues

and must return his fee: eighteen dray-weights of gold

the unconventional Slim was also a heroic figure to the men he commanded - known affectionately to the ranks as 'Uncle Bill'