Inside the famous India Club on the Strand

• YOU are right to say that we are losing a big slice of “old London” in your September 15 headline.

The end of an era with India Club but let’s ACV it as an “asset of community value”!

That is why some of us made the effort to go there before it closed for our last lunch at the club.

I am also glad to hear the Soho Society is making a fresh application to nominate it as an ACV.

Though the legislation only gives protection for a six-month period if there is a threatened sale, it might be relevant, if this is followed by a planning application.

In the very near future we are also likely to use a new term for India, as the ruling BJP promotes “Bharat” instead.

So it really is the end of an era.

MURAD QURESHI
@MuradQureshiLDN
www.muradqureshi.com