Tahmi Bhandari defied convention and
carved a niche for herself in a man’s world
Shirin Bhandari
"It is all like a dream now…” I stand in the thicket and look over the board to read an article written about my grandmother. The bulletin is full of clippings on the great Tahmi Bhandari. For some strange reason, the journalists who had the opportunity to meet her ended the article in the same way. Poached eggs, tea, toast, and marigolds…a repetitive reference to the past. People always wrote about her youth and failed to see her in her old age.
Bhandari opened her guesthouse in the 1950s, catering to the diplomats of the High Commissions of Delhi and what......