The beauteous Ayesha Thapar's grandmother, her mother Jyoti Thapar's mother, was a friend of our mum's from their Srinagar days. So we have always known of the family's Kashmir connection and when we were told that Thapar had restored and refurbished her home in Srinagar, we assumed it was her grandmother's childhood one.

Ayesha Thapar and (right) Rohit Bal