Recently, like many other journalists in Calcutta, I was trying to find the Queen's former footman, Badar Azim, who returned to India when his UK visa expired. British papers had written about his journey to Buckingham Palace from the "slums of Calcutta"... but this did not go down well with his family.
Local residents do not always see their surroundings as slums
Badar Azim played a public role, helping to announce the recent Royal birth