Vernon Corea – The dashing Radio Ceylon broadcaster in the late 1950s
Vernon Corea has been mentioned in ‘Mrs D’Silva’s Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta’ a novel by Glen Peters.
Indian novelist Glen Peters
Legendary Radio Ceylon broadcaster, Vernon Corea has been mentioned thrice by Indian author Glen Peters, in his novel ‘Mrs D’Silva’s Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta.’ Glen Peters was born in Allahabad India and spent most of his school years in a suburb of Calcutta. His family emigrated to the UK in the late 60 s where he completed his university education. He was President of his Student s Union for a year and then worked as an engineer with British Gas for a number of years before he joined Price Waterhouse in London. He has been with the firm for 25 years and was made a partner in 1988. In 1995 he and his wife purchased a rundown mansion in Pembrokeshire which started a love affair with West Wales. He founded Project Rhosygilwen in 2006 which aims to use the arts as an engine of rural regeneration.
Mrs D Silva s Detective Instincts and the Saitan of Calcutta In a hugely enjoyable read, Glen Peters recaptures the tastes and atmospheres of 1960s India with a vivid and engaging novel of recipes and murder, intrigue and romance. Mrs D Silva teaches at Don Bosco s Catholic school in Calcutta. She was brought up by the nuns of St Mary s when her mother died and now only thirty two years of age is already a young widow with a son to care for. Life has a lot in store for Mrs D Silva. Calcutta in 1960 is a city striving to change. The old rulers have gone home but India is still trying to find its own way towards a peaceful, prosperous future. But the world is changing and pressing in on the new country. Mrs D Silva wants to be part of the New India, the new Kolkata. She likes the coffee houses of Chowringhee Road and the dances at the Grand Hotel. She likes her work at Don Bosco s, especially the new maths teacher from Darjeeling. She even likes her students. Which is why she is so shocked when the body of Agnes Lal, a young woman brought up by the nuns of the Loreto convent, is washed up on the marshes of the Hooghly river. Has Agnes been murdered? Does anyone care in a city where young girls go missing every day? And then Anil Sen, a former student of Mrs Dilva s and a close friend of Agnes Lal, is charged with the murder of a factory manager during a riot. A riot started by The Workers Revolutionary Movement of Bengal, and what a group of goondas they are, led by that shaitan, Dutta. The same Dutta running rings around Inspector Basu, who has been forced into investigating both cases and is getting nowhere fast. The same Inspector Basu who has a son at Don Bosco’s School. It s all a bit of a tamasha until Mrs D Silva discovers her detective instincts. In a hugely enjoyable read, Glen Peters recaptures the tastes and atmospheres of 1960s India with a vivid and engaging novel of recipes and murder, intrigue and romance.
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Vernon Corea 1927-2002 
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