I was in Georgetown, Penang twice for lengthy visits and lost my heart to the place. It was like walking through a film set of colonial India, at that point in in time, I took a giant room at the Eastern and Oriental Hotel which was built by the brothers who did Raffles and other famous hotels. However, in the early 1990s it had not been renovated, so a deluxe room was just $40 and the menu was very old fashioned and charming. It was a great place to stay for a young woman on a budget who was traveling alone. How interesting that Georgetown is now the closest thing to Simla! I hope two things for this forthcoming drama series, Indian Summers: first, that it's a balanced portrait of all the people living in colonial India--and second that it gets on BBC America or PBS, so I can see the glory of Georgetown. Thanks for the alert, Harshawardhan. I suppose this program won't come out for at least a year and a half. Sujata THE AYAH'S TALE and THE SLEEPING DICTIONARY, available through Amazon, Itunes, Barnes&Noble and Smashwords > Today's Topics: > > 1. New film on the last days of the British Empire in India > (Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar) > > From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <bosham@gmail.com> > Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] New film on the last days of the British Empire in India > Date: April 24, 2014 at 1:45:05 AM EDT > To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> > Reply-To: Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com>, india-british-raj@rootsweb.com > > > > 23 April 2014 > > GEORGE TOWN: Penang has been chosen as the filming > location for a drama series set in the last days of the British > Empire in India. Award winning producer Charles Pattinson > said the well-preserved colonial architecture here made it > ideal for shooting of the film Indian Summers. (snip) > http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1026683 > > ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > >