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Diary

Tom Holland’s diary: Fighting jihadism with Mohammed, and bowling the Crown Prince of Udaipur

Plus: Dresden, Goebbels’ last and most enduring triumph

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

As weather bombs brew in the north Atlantic, I’m roughing it by heading off to Rajasthan, and the literary festival where you are most likely to be greeted by an elephant. The life of a writer is rarely glamorous, but for one week in January — should an invitation to Jaipur be forthcoming — it decidedly is.

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Tom Holland is a historian. His books include In the Shadow of the Sword, Rubicon and Persian Fire.

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