In days of old...

would this blog have been called Clark's Larks? A national pioneer, one who perhaps set the pattern for Mahendra's mishaps, is Clark McKay. Older South Africans might remember him from Springbok Radio. Look at those ties - certainly made for radio.

Now who would have thought that Mahendra's Ties would branch out into cultural anthropology, unearthing ur-trends in celebrity fashions?