The Ayatollah Khomeini was Half-Indian/Half-English? Plausible or crank theory? You decide.
Personally I don't think it matters. Their current President isn't even half-human!
(I joke, I joke. Please don't trojan me, Iranian government.)
Posted by Quentin George at September 12, 2007 06:00 PMNot surprising. The founder of Gandhi's Congress Party was an Irishwoman called Annie Besant, she was a rabid anticolonialist nationalist at a time when many Hindus were happy with British rule.
Reminds me of a story by the Bengali Nobel-winner, Tagore. Called 'Gora', it is about a Brahmin who organises a fanatical anti-British campaign in colonial India, who suddenly finds out he is in fact an Englishman adopted and raised by Brahmin foster parents and experiences a flash of humanistic awareness beyond race and caste. No such softening for the Ayatollah though.
Posted by: Bruce at September 20, 2007 09:29 PM