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Leaning over the Tower of London

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20060415
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NEW DELHI, India, April 15 -- Indrajit Hazra goes to London and comes back with tales of bird flu, quarantined ravens and two very different performing bands.

For crying out loud, which century did Geoffrey Chaucer live in? Oh, I know it was the 14th century, but that's not the point! Like every desi Eng Lit pretend-posh boy visiting London in spring, I had these lines ringing in my ear as I came out of Heathrow: "Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote/ The droghte of March hath perced to the roote".

No, that wasn't Geoffrey Boycott describing M.S. Dhoni on Sky Sports, but the other Geoff ...

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