Beginning last week, Columbia Professor Emerita of Modern Indic Languages Fran Pritchett visited my gharīb-khānah in Montreal. Fran is a dear friend, my former PhD adviser, and the creator of the online dīwān of Ghālib, A Desertful of Roses. I took her around the city, and introduced her to her grand-students David Wong, Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond, Zain Mian, and Jessica Stilwell. Fran enjoyed it very much, for, as she said,
"I can give them whatever advice I like and then go away, and it's up to you to feed them and change their diapers."Below are some photos from her trip.
