Chicken hot-pot

As the pathetic little gravestones with their heart-rending inscriptions testify, the graveyards adjacent to the English churches in India are full of the children of the Raj. The chances of any baby born in India achieving a full life-span were very slim, and especially the children of the British before the discovery of antibiotics. There was hardly a family, during the last century, that had not lost one child to some tropical fever, or to snake or scorpion bite. During my first year of