Martin Soler

1532 days ago

An entertaining story of an odd royal family in India. Oddly what struck me the most in this story is the claim from the writer about truth and how journalists can feel they are truth seekers. Maybe some are, surely they must tell themselves that to keep going every day. But in reality they’re quite often the ones who craft the biased stories which in turn become fake stories.

The Jungle Prince of Delhi

nytimes.com

For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?