An improvised explosive device went off in the crowd. There was a huge number of people at the holiday concert. The head of state, who attended the concert, was at the scene a few minutes later.
Recently, I spoke at the launch in Delhi of Vikram Sampath’s new magnum opus, Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s Interregnum (1760-99), a 900-page biography of this controversial figure.