Andrew Whitehead is a historian, lecturer and freelance journalist. He has worked for 35 years with the BBC as a correspondent, presenter and Editor of BBC World Service News. He is also an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham and a visiting professor at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai.
Caught in a property dispute and sealed for decades, Gokhale Hall on Armenian Street — a witness to many defining moments in our history — finds itself forgotten and dilapidated.