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Diary

Jeffrey Archer’s diary: a pirate at the traffic lights, and other Indian wonders

Plus: Disaster in the rugby – and a lucky escape from the cricket

14 March 2015

9:00 AM

14 March 2015

9:00 AM

This last week, in India, I visited six cities in seven days: Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Calcutta and New Delhi. This is my 11th trip to India and from the very beginning the signs were good. For a start, the temperature on arrival in Mumbai was a cool 22 degrees and I was told it had rained for the past two days, though I’ve actually never seen rain in Mumbai before.

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