Greetings from the Royal Pavilion, a stunning reminder of India in southern England

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Mughal arches, onion domes, chhatri-topped towers. Living in India for five years, I’d Instagram my way through a maharaja’s palace, Sikh temple or sultan’s fort every weekend. I got used to strolling through scalloped arches. How I miss them!

Which is why I froze in my tracks last winter when I spotted this building in Brighton, on England’s south coast. The day was drizzly gray, I’d gone for a bracing swim in the English Channel, and was

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