Heaven on wheels – Firdaus Kanga Nieuw

To see Britain through the eyes of Firdaus Kanga is a rare revelation. It is a view, as he says himself, gained “from one eye misted with Anglophilia and the other clear and wide open”. Firdaus arrived in London for the first time prior to publication of his first autobiographical novel, “Trying To Grow”, an account of a Parsee childhood in Bombay in which a congenital condition characterized by brittle bones left him disabled but undaunted. Firdaus has always found that one of the bizarre consequences of h…