EDITOR S NOTE
principal The of Mayo College is a retired lieutenant general in the army. The first email that went out to his office in early February was met with a polite, but stern, “Maybe later in the year, Ms. Sharma.” Bharath Ramamrutham, one of our favourite photographers, who is also an architect by training, was on my speed dial those days. I was googling drone shots of the stunning old Indo-Saracenic-style building of the college and spamming him with those—dreaming of it already on the cover. The real firestarter actually was the Delhi-based journalist Anjali Puri, who had sent a message almost a year ago: “There’s something fabulous going on at Mayo College.” A good writer knows how to trick a nerdy editor. Leave something to mystery, don’t ask too many times,…