Wick marks India Independence Day with garden party

Published: 10:42, 17 August 2021

| Updated: 10:45, 17 August 2021

Pradip Datta and friend Loretta Reynolds, with the India flag, along with guests (from left) Marilyn MacKenzie, Janette and Roy Mackenzie, Pauline and Kevin Wedderburn, Lynda Risbridger, Ann Sutherland, David Risbridger and Graham Sutherland. Picture: Robert MacDonald/Northern Studios

India Independence Day was celebrated in the northernmost part of mainland Scotland at the weekend when retired surgeon Pradip Datta marked the occasion with a garden party, for friends, at his home in Newton Avenue, Wick.

Pradip left his native India in 1967, twenty years after the country gained independence from Great Britain on August 15, 1947.

His book, The Naked Mountain Lands, a memoir of his experiences and life since coming to the UK, was published earlier this year.

All proceeds are going to charity and so far £5000 has been raised, a third of which has been donated to Women In Need, a charity in India which supports women suffering from mental illness, HIV, leprosy and other conditions.

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