From the bylanes of-Delhi, Agra & Jaipur

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A descendant of Col Salvador Smith (1783-1871) of the Gwalior Army, Ronald Vivian Smith is the recipient of the Canon Holland Prize and the Rotary Award for general knowledge and the journalism award (1997-98) from the Michael Madhusudan Academy, Kolkata. History, antiquity, Egyptology, mysticism and the occult are his main interests, besides love for Mughlai food, which he shares with his wife, five children and grandson. Ronny Smith was born in Agra on 6 January 1938 and was educated at
St Peter’s College and St John’s College, from where he got his MA degree in English Literature. He began writing for newspapers right from 1956 and then worked for the Press Trust of India and The Statesman, New Delhi, from where he retired as News Editor in 1996. Son of a journalist father, Thomas Smith, he has authored a dozen books, mostly on Delhi, besides a romantic novel, Jasmine Nights & The Taj, a book of ghost stories and two volumes of poetry.