Bashir Cassimally

Portrait of the Queen Who Played with Mice

Simba, our neighbor’s cat, is a delicate one with
extremely sophisticated manners, in fact perhaps too
refined for a cat. But then she is Simba, a royal cat, the
lion queen in miniature. Her demeanour vouched for it
and her manners, the very best, were learnt from her
masters, or shall we say from her subjects…

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