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Billionaire Nirmal Sethia doesn't read books, so why is he funding a Agatha Christie exhibition?
Agatha Christie wrote a great many mystery novels in her time but probably none as baffling as The Strange Case of the Indian Entrepreneur . Eastern Eye asked Nirmal Sethia: Have you read any of Agatha Christies novels? His reply was typical of the billionaire who ranked 4th in Eastern Eye s Asian Rich List 2026 with a net value of 6.8 billion: Im not educated, Im matric fail. And yet he is sponsoring the British Librarys exhibition, Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery , to mark 50 years since the authors death on 12 January 1976 at the age of 85. As the director of numerous companies, Sethia described his main interests in the following manner in 2017: We are involved in security printing, sugar refining, banking I am on the board of a bank in Dubai we are involved in small power generation, in real estate, but 50 per cent of my time goes on tea because I love my tea. The clue is the word, tea. Agatha Christie boarding the EET Salon at lunchtime on the train from Bulawayo to the Cape. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the world. Her husband Archie had been invited to join a trade mission to promote the British Empire Exhibition and Agatha was determined to go with him The Christie Archive Trust The British Library has announced that the Agatha Christie exhibition is taking place, with thanks to Newby Teas. And Sethia is the man behind Newby Teas, which is a luxury brand. Tea figures frequently in Christies novels, and the Queen of Crime herself loved her tea, probably the strong brands from Assam. Her famous creation, Miss (Jane) Marple, was also fond of tea. However, her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, preferred hot chocolate and syrups. Newby Teas, Sethia confirmed in an interview with Eastern Eye , is owed by his family charities its owned 45 per cent by the N Sethia Foundation, and 55 per cent by N Sethia Trust. According to the British Library, Newby is a London-based luxury tea brand sourcing exceptional teas from the worlds finest regions. Packed in its carbon-neutral factory, profits support charitable causes through the N Sethia Foundation. Newby is served by prestigious hospitality destinations worldwide. Agatha Christie under a tree on Honolulu beach after surfing, 1922. Agatha and her husband Archie were permitted to take a short holiday away from the 1922 trade mission and chose Honolulu where they learnt how to surf on longboards. Here Agatha purchased a surf suit in the local style, better suited to the demands of surfing than her swim attire for bathing in Torquay. The Christie Archive Trust The tea is carefully packed at a plant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) so that it retains its distinctive flavour. Sethia gets very cross with people who put milk into their tea. Although Sethia claims he does not read any books, his charity makes a point of supporting education in the widest sense. Christies books, he said, are literature. Its part of education. Literature is imagination, and that capability can only come when wisdom is invoked. There is a mission to allow people to understand the fantasy of literature and the capability of writing. For his support for books, Sethia said that has been bestowed honorary life membership of the Friends of the National Libraries. This is a registered charity founded in 1931 that supports the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales and other libraries in the UK recognised as being of national importance. Its chief patron is King Charles, who took on the position in 2016 when he was still the Prince of Wales. Agatha Christie relaxing during a sightseeing tour, Tajoura, Libya, 1955. Agatha and her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan had invited Agatha's daughter Rosalind and grandson Mathew to join them on a tour of the ancient sites of Leptis Magna and Sabratah during December 1955. The Christie Archive Trust I couldnt refuse, said Sethia. The honour came from His majesty. Sethia has also been named ambassador of peace by the UN because of $50m sent to Africa by his charity to tackle cholera and other childrens diseases. He has also built two Tirupathi temples in India in Delhi and in Kurukshetra, respectively. Sethia, who was born in Calcutta on November 8, 1941, took over part of the family empire when his father, Sohan Lalji Sethia, died in 1967. His father was born on 5 September 1913 in Sujangargh, Rajasthan; graduated from Presidency College Calcutta, one of the foremost institutions of higher education in India; and had a very successful business career in the jute industry. His entrepreneurial vision and innovation won him international recognition in the business community. His son first came to London as a boy (my pay was 7 shillings a week), returned to Calcutta at 16, and then came back to London in 1966. He was deeply affected by the death of his wife, Chitra, in London, in 2010, after 41 years of marriage. Much of his charitable work is in her memory. Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, 2017 20th Century Studios Sethia is the founder of the N Sethia Foundation, while his daughter Richa is a trustee. The mystery of how he came to support the Christie exhibition was further unravelled by Aneta Aslakhanova, the global marketing director of Newby Teas. She said both the British Library and Newby Teas are both members of Walpole, the organisation that represents British luxury brands. They approached us and we said yes, she said. Tea occurs frequently in Agatha Christies novels. Tea is used to create a deceptive English sense of ease and comfort in her novels. However, strong tea, containing tannins, often disguises the fatal poison. She mentioned Christies The Harlequin Tea Set , a collection of nine short stories. Another collection, Partners in Crime , has a story called A Pot of Tea . Still from Murder on the Orient Express, 2017 20th Century Studios There is this passage in A Pocket Full of Rye : There was no doubt but that Mr Fortescue was very seriously ill. Even as she came up to him, his body was convulsed in a painful spasmodic movement. Words came out in jerky gasps. Teawhat the hellyou put in the teaget helpquick get a doctor. Tea makes for the perfect English murder. The word tea is used 113 times in A Pocket Full of Rye , 46 times in 4.50 From Paddington and 35 times in At Bertrams Hotel . One of the most famous mentions of tea in a Christie novel comes from Griselda in The Murder at the Vicarage : What are you doing this afternoon, Griselda? My duty, said Griselda. My duty as the Vicaress. Tea and scandal at four-thirty. In The Pale Horse , Christie used thallium mixed into a tea service. Her description of thallium poisoning symptomsspecifically lethargy and hair losswas so scientifically accurate that it later helped real-life doctors correctly diagnose and save a real poisoning victim. Still from And Then There Were None, 2015, BBC Agatha Christie Limited In The Moving Finger , a lethal dose of strychnine is hidden inside a tea cake. Strychnine is exceptionally bitter, requiring sweet, baked goods to disguise the taste. In The Hollow , the killer uses afternoon tea to administer deadly digitalis (derived from the foxglove plant). Sethia is wondering whether there should be a Newby Teas ceremony to inaugurate the exhibition. The British Library said the exhibition, will go behind the books to explore how Christies life, travels and interests informed her work and the creation of her iconic characters. Through personal objects belonging to Christie, many of which have never been displayed before, visitors will gain unprecedented insight into her writing process and explore her impact on crime fiction. Accompanying the exhibition will be displays and a major events season celebrating Christies influence on literature at libraries across the UK. Still from And Then There Were None, 2015, BBC Agatha Christie Limited Lucy Rowland, lead curator of the exhibition, which will run from 30 October 2026 20 June 2027, said: The biggest exhibition held in the UK in almost 25 years to celebrate Christies writing, visitors will see over 100 items from different periods in her life, drawn from the British Librarys own collection, the Christie Archive Trust and other lenders, including material never displayed before. Her impact on crime fiction as a genre has been immense and this exhibition will take visitors back to Christies childhood and explore her journey to becoming an iconic writer, while celebrating how adaptions of her novels for stage and screen continue to enthral audiences today, over 50 years after her death. Great Western Railway is also a sponsor. Still from And Then There Were None, 2015, BBC Agatha Christie Limited Amanda Burns, sales and marketing director at Great Western Railway (GWR), said: Agatha Christie and Great Western Railway share a story that stretches back over a century. Her love of train travel and the journeys she took between London and the South West helped inspire some of the most celebrated crime fiction ever written. This partnership is an opportunity to connect people with the places Christie loved: Torquay, Dartmouth and the Devon coastline, and inspire travel between the South West and London, just as she did. Giving details of what is in store for visitors, the British Library said: The exhibition will take visitors on a journey through Christies upbringing, her interests and travels and how she adapted her novels for the stage, through five immersive sections filled with items from her personal life, including her typewriter, professional and personal correspondence with other writers, family photographs and notebooks and typescripts for novels. There will also be clues and Easter eggs dotted throughout the exhibition for Christie fans to sleuth out. Christies impact on the wider crime fiction genre will be explored through interviews within the exhibition with leading writers, broadcasters and notable fans. Agatha Christies Remington typewriter from 1937 The Christie Archive Trust In the section, The Country House, visitors will gain an insight into Christies childhood and adolescence through exploring the quintessential setting for many of her novels, the English country house. Visitors will see early examples of her writing and discover how her upbringing inspired the settings for her works, from her first published novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) with the iconic drawing room reveal, and her bestselling And Then There Were None (1939). On display will be photographs of Christie as a child, spending time with her family at their home, Ashfield and roller skating with friends. This section will also explore her beginnings as a young writer, from the typescript for her first short story, House of Beauty, to a notebook from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle illustrating Sherlocks method for solving mysteries and feedback on her work from acclaimed writer Dorothy L. Sayers. Agatha Christies Remington typewriter from 1937 The Christie Archive Trust This is followed by a section called The dispensary: During the First World War Christie volunteered as a nurse and pharmacy dispenser, honing a knowledge of drugs and toxins which would later prove invaluable to a crime writer. Visitors will explore a dispensary filled with the poisons that crop up in Christies work, displayed with the study notes for her pharmaceutical exams taken in 1917 and her World War One service record. The year 1914 also marked when Christie married her first husband, Archie, and there will be letters from him, alongside her notebooks containing ideas for stories and handwritten research notes on poisons including those for her novel The Pale Horse which has been credited for saving lives in the real world. Agatha Christies study notes for her pharmaceutical exam taken in 1917 The Christie Archive Trust Next is The Train: On leaving the dispensary, visitors will board an Orient Express-inspired train carriage that will evoke the glamour and intrigue of 1920s travel while also exploring Christies use of the closed circle mystery, perfect for stories set in enclosed compartments. Christie was a keen rail enthusiast and this section will explore how her experiences journeying abroad and sharp observations of fellow travellers inspired her writing and helped form the characters and settings for some of her most famous novels, including Murder on the Orient Express . The inter-war years were busy for Christie as she published over 30 novels, including the career-making The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, renegotiated a new publishing contract and spent 10 months travelling across the world with her first husband, Archie Christie. On display will be photographs capturing Christie surfing in Hawaii in 1922 alongside a replica of the surfboard she used, Christies hand-written notes for her Isle of Man treasure hunt and a letter written by Christie relaying her journey on the Orient Express in 1931. Letter from Agatha Christie to her second husband Max Mallowan, in December 1930. Agatha writes to Max describing her return home from their honeymoon, on the Orient Express. Documenting how the train had been halted by floods and her fellow travellers' reactions, this event would inspire her to write Murder on the Orient Express a few years later. The Christie Archive Trust This is followed by The dig: After disembarking from the train visitors will find themselves at the site of an archaeological dig in the 1930s, a time that marked Christies second marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan and her most prolific writing period. While Christie and her novels are associated with the English countryside, her experiences taking photographs and supporting the work of archaeologists on digs in Iraq and Syria from the 1930s informed novels like Murder in Mesopotamia and They Came to Baghdad. On display will be Christies plot notes for both novels alongside the 1937 Remington typewriter she used to write And Then There Were None , along with the cine film footage taken by Christie documenting her life on the digs and her Leica camera used for photographing artefacts, including one of the earliest known portrait sculptures, discovered on an excavation led by Max. Cover of typescript ofHouse of Beauty, Agatha Christies first short story written when she was just a teenager. The Christie Archive Trust The fifth and final section is The Theatre: Visitors will then travel to the glittering West End of the 1950s for the final section, that will explore Christies work adapting her novels for stage productions that delighted post-war audiences looking for escapism and intrigue, making her the most successful female playwright of all time. Visitors will discover how she adapted her style and plots for the stage, from her notes for Witness for the Prosecution to rare footage of Christie at The Mousetrap celebrations, the typescript for Curtain: Poirots Last Case and the Dictaphone she used in later life to transcribe her first drafts for stories, such as Endless Night (1967). Screen adaptations also brought Christies iconic detectives to wider audiences and this section features posters and costumes from film and TV adaptions over the recent decades, including Ariadne Oliver (portrayed by Zo Wanamaker)s coat from Dead Mans Folly (2013) offering visitors the chance to reflect on her impact across the crime genre from literature and theatre to film and TV. Box for Tabloid Veronal tablets,1910-1940 Science Museum Group James Prichard, CEO and Chairman of Agatha Christie Limited and Agatha Christies great-grandson, said: We are delighted to be partnering with the British Library for this major exhibition dedicated to my great grandmothers extraordinary life and works. My father, Mathew, has carefully selected a wide range of items from the Christie Archive which offer remarkable insights into Agatha Christie from both a professional, and personal perspective, and that are sure to fascinate visitors. It feels fitting to do this to help mark the 50th anniversary of her death; this combines an opportunity for quiet reflection, but also an opportunity to celebrate the immense achievements of her life. Hers was truly one of the most remarkable lives of the 20th century. Chemical storage bottle and glass stopper, labelled POISON phosphorus P,1907-1912 Science Museum Group The Learning Programme accompanying the exhibition has been made possible by a grant from the Colwinston Charitable Trust 30th Anniversary Fund. Accompanying the exhibition will be Living Knowledge Network displays and crime fiction events at public libraries around the UK. Empty poison bottle for aconite, iodine and chloretone solution,1925-1960 Science Museum Group Alongside this major exhibition the British Library will present the first comprehensive volume on the life, works and influence of Agatha Christie to be published in the last 50 years. Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery has been edited by celebrated crime fiction novelist Martin Edwards, alongside exhibition curator Lucy Rowland. Notable contributors include Mark Aldridge, Kenneth Branagh, Simon Calder, Caroline Crampton, John Curran, Lucy Foley, GT Karber, Kate Mosse, Mathew Prichard, David Suchet and Zo Wanamaker. A must for all Christie devotees, this volume includes many previously unpublished photographs and specially commissioned artworks from the Christie Archive Trust, as well as photographs, documents and illustrations from the collections of the National Trust, the British Library and a number of contributing private collections. Newby Teas The exhibition forms a major part of Agatha Christie Limiteds anniversary programme in 2026, with celebrations of Agatha Christies legacy and ongoing impact on the genre throughout this year.
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Cinderella Das and Piyush Jain Join TOPS Development Scheme Ahead of Asian Games
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Durga Puja to be themed on Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari's life, political journey
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Dilip Ghosh Criticizes Congress Over National Interests and Rahul Gandhis Remarks
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EIL Associate Engineer Recruitment 2026 Notification Out - Apply Online for 12 Posts
Engineers India Limited (EIL) has invited experienced engineers to apply for 12 Associate Engineer Grade I posts. Candidates must first register online between 25 August 2026 and 08 September 2026, then attend a walk-in interview at one of EIL's offices (Gurugram, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Mumbai, or Vadodara), on a date to be intimated by email.
Gold Rate Today, Aug 25: Gold prices up in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad
22, 24 carat Gold prices up across Indian cities on August 20
Class 1 student bitten by snake inside Kolkata school; second incident in one week
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari promises appropriate action into the matter; parents of students remain anxious, raise safety concerns
Gold and silver prices today, 25 August: Check the latest 24K, 22K gold and 999 silver retail rates across Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and other major Indian cities, along with MCX market updates.
Brent crude remained around $92 a barrel as investors tracked US sanctions on Iran and risks around the Strait of Hormuz
Bengal: Three held in connection with killing of former Trinamool MLA
Bengal: Three held in connection with killing of former Trinamool MLAs personal assistant Kolkata: Police on Monday arrested three people in connection with the killing of former Trinamool Congress MLA Sunil Singhs personal assistant Shekhar Chowdhury alias Bunty. The incident took place in Garulia under Noapara Assembly constituency in West Bengals North 24 Parganas district. [] The post Bengal: Three held in connection with killing of former Trinamool MLAs personal assistant appeared first on Mangalorean.com .
Kolkata: Woman dies after tree falls on her at SSKM Hospital
A 46-year-old woman died after a tree suddenly fell on her at the state-run SSKM Hospital in Kolkata, with police launching a preliminary investigation
CAA Hearing to Conclude Soon: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari
Kolkata, August 25: West Bengal leader Suvendu Adhikari announced on Monday that hearings for citizenship applications under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, will soon be completed. He stated that the state government has issued certificates to 23,000 out of 230,000 applicants so far. Addressing a press conference at the state secretariat Nabanna, Adhikari said, We ... Read more CAA Hearing to Conclude Soon: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari
