According to novelist Pico Iyer, India is the ‘most chattery nation on earth’. Well, I wouldn’t like to try and judge that, but the wonderful, inventive, vibrant, use of English is always a delight.

In Kolkata, for example, we saw the Victoria Memorial, according to the taxi driver the ‘Taj Mahal’ of the city. ‘Taj is Raj’, he said.

There must be books galore about architecture and what it says about projections of power… And talking of books, we also wandered, and browsed, on College Street: ‘College is knowledge’.

We had previously come across playing with rhymes, ‘I’m going shopping-whopping’, for example, or ‘oh not another meeting-sheeting’.  Fred, faced with a group all chattering away at once, added his own, magnificent invention: ‘Will you please just stop talking -squawking!’