Mandeep, I always read your mail and methinks you often forget the Raj List is about the bond (underlined) created by Indian/English history of the last couple of centuries. It's not about preserving Kipling's house per se, but his connection with the Raj era. If one is uninterested/disinterested in this aspect then why be part of a List which is? None of us should flinch from acknowledging the equally harsh actions and reactions between England and India. But surely there are memorable moments, which are just that: memorable. This, I believe, is why those tiny, cash deprived societies meet once monthly with folding chair décor for tea and samosas and/or cucumber sandwiches to preserve: memories! An aside: most people associate the phrase "Never Forget" with the Jews and the Holocaust. Hasn't anyone else noticed the recent exposure and demand for justice of past 'ethnic' abuse? Just today I read of 'musahars' in India, who live by trapping and eating rats. No, not a joke. Just another revelation of a despised minority who remain so because they've been hidden and not permitted another way to earn a living! (I did say this was an aside. John, forty lashes with a wet noodle for me.) Always cheery. Claire B.