When the visit of Comrades Bulganin and Khrushchev to Poona amused the West

The visit of the Soviet leaders to the National Defence Academy in 1955 seemed to evoke nostalgia for the days of British India

Many Indians from generations past have stories connected with the visit of Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Nicholai Bulganin to India in 1955. In 2009, when I visited the Singara Tea Estate (which is owned by the Ugandan Madhwani family) near Coonoor in the Nilgiris, I was invited to have a cup of tea in the same room that the two Soviet leaders s…