This next selection from Saeed Durrani’s memoirs describes how he settled in at the University of Cambridge as  a new PhD student in 1953. The transition from Pakistan to 1950s England was something of a culture shock, not least because it meant having to learn how to eat peas off the back of a fork, taking cold showers and getting his own clothes washed for the first time. He did manage, though, to “save a few pennies” by never giving his socks for washing…though this had some rather unfortunate (and malodorous ) consequences.

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