by RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA 'Elizabethhad gone to spend the afternoon with Margaret. They were both English, but Margaret was much older and they were also very different in character. But both were in love with India, and it was this fact that drew them together.'
In the third of seven readings related to the preceding Bookshelf programme, Jill Balcon reads one of the short stories of Mrs Jhabvala in which she depicts two Englishwomen trying, in their very different ways, to adapt themselves to the post-independente Indian scene.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT