A Taste of India

On Friday 28th April Bharat Patel, a local Television celebrity with more than 30 years’ experience of making documentaries for BBC and ITV will be presenting tales from his Autobiography and enlightening us with his journey from India to Africa to the United Kingdom.
Award-winning Reporter, Bharat has worked for BBC Radio Leicester, Radio 4, ITV, ITN and the BBC. He has covered major events which have made headlines around the world, including the Kegworth air crash, the death of Princess Diana, the Gujarat earthquake and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. But it’s not all been about tragedy. He’s also interviewed Polly the parrot, who spoke five languages and Wonky, the world’s oldest donkey. 
But there’s one story he has never covered and that is his own. By the age of eight he had travelled across three continents. He ended up in Leicester, after a soothsayer told his parents his future lay in England. His family exchanged a comfortable lifestyle in a warm climate in Zambia in Africa for a tiny terraced house with a leaking roof in a much cooler and wetter Highfields. Their arrival in Leicester was followed by a series of bizarre and comic incidents, which were often odder than anything Bharat encountered as a reporter.
Bharat will also be whetting our appetites with recipes from the Gujarat and we will be feasting on a glorious Indian Buffet.
The time is at 7.00pm, at Syston Methodist Church, the price is £12.50 per person and all profits, including the proceeds from sales of Bharat’s book will be going to Hope for Cancer charity.
A wonderful evening in store, so please book your tickets early, as when this was originally planned in 2020 we sold very quickly.
Booking through Keith Baker, tel: 0771 214 2706, or email:
keith.baker01@btinternet.com
Don’t miss this uplifting and enriching occasion.