This is a story absorbingly told about an institution in far away London which from a century has served India students who arrived as strangers to the city. It has nurtured young India mind within a congenial ethos of India Culture. The book gives its readers a peep into the lives of these aspiring India students. The institution itself has passed through vicissitudes of fortune, including its devastation in1940 by one of Hitler’s bombs in the Battle of Britain.