You are warmly invited to an Indian Lunch featuring our Edmonton author Wendy Davis as she presents her acclaimed book Dal and Rice, published in 2008.

Dal & Rice, Wendy M. Davis’s collection of reminiscences, is a snapshot of a way of life long vanished. Davis is a daughter of the British Raj. Her father, Sir Godfrey, was a high official and witness to the great changes that came about as a result of India’s struggle for independence. When Mahatma Gandhi was jailed after the first civil disobedience campaign, Sir Godfrey visited him daily. A decade later, he even played London tour guide for the illustrious ex-prisoner. Born in 1928, Davis grew up with the requisite mix of ayahs, boarding schools, and summer holidays away from the Indian heat. She is in her element when describing pony races at the convent school in Kashmir, or recounting idyllic stories of the household menagerie. Davis provides an amusing account of life in Karachi during the Second World War, but her experience in India draws to its close around the same time as the war itself.